Shuvaloy Majumdar
Calgary Heritage, Alberta · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, 1867 brought a sacred covenant, with free people governing themselves, rising above region and religion and building a sovereign nation on ordered liberty, under laws we wrote ourselves. That promise was betrayed by decades of central control. The Laurentian consensus treated provinces as problems to manage.”
“Ours is a federation of equal partners and a vital contribution to the most successful civilization in history. It is being dismantled and it must be restored. The choice is clear. Either we decline as a grievance-ridden middle power under central control or reclaim the strength and ambition of a rising major power.”
“Mr. Speaker, we have laws and basic standards to hold those responsible for slavery accountable in Canadian supply chains. Canadian law requires the government to table the anti-slavery report from the ombudsman every year. It has refused to do so for three straight years. Why does the government keep breaking the law?”
“Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honour the life of Bobbie Sparrow, who passed away in February at the age of 90. Bobbie earned respect through a lifetime of service and of unwavering fidelity to her principles.”
“It is the product of a confident Arab leadership, not imported dogma. It is therefore unsurprising that the clerical military regime in Tehran, whose revolutionary ideology has relied on exporting instability and targeting pragmatic Arab success stories, has directed proxy attacks and threats against the UAE in recent years.”
“Grand ideologies, whether imported socialism dressed as pan-Arab unity or political Islamism promising moral regeneration, have repeatedly subordinated practical governance and individual agency to abstractions with measurable costs in human welfare and stability.”
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“Ours is a federation of equal partners and a vital contribution to the most successful civilization in history. It is being dismantled and it must be restored. The choice is clear. Either we decline as a grievance-ridden middle power under central control or reclaim the strength and ambition of a rising major power. We will keep the promise of 1867, the promise of our founding and the promise for generations to come.”
“Mr. Speaker, 1867 brought a sacred covenant, with free people governing themselves, rising above region and religion and building a sovereign nation on ordered liberty, under laws we wrote ourselves. That promise was betrayed by decades of central control. The Laurentian consensus treated provinces as problems to manage. Resource wealth was redistributed, development was blocked and jurisdictions were ignored. It was an ideological project from Trudeau the father, which was continued by the son. Canadians reject it. We hunger for restoration. Canada is the third-oldest democracy on the planet. It is the heir to the Magna Carta and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Any self-respecting nation fights for its existence.”
“Mr. Speaker, we have laws and basic standards to hold those responsible for slavery accountable in Canadian supply chains. Canadian law requires the government to table the anti-slavery report from the ombudsman every year. It has refused to do so for three straight years. Why does the government keep breaking the law?”
“May her example inspire us to defend the Confederation she fought for, our resources, our promise for an ordered liberty, and a nation defined by strength and ambition. I will miss my friend. May she rest in peace.”
“Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honour the life of Bobbie Sparrow, who passed away in February at the age of 90. Bobbie earned respect through a lifetime of service and of unwavering fidelity to her principles. From her years as a surgical nurse at Holy Cross Hospital to her leadership in the energy sector, she embodied the resilience of her generation. She gave herself fully to Calgary and its charities, institutions and civic life. As the member for Calgary Southwest, she brought that same duty to Ottawa, fighting fiercely against the national energy program, inflation and relentless tax hikes. She served with grace, competence and fierce determination. She was a fighter right until the very end. I thank her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for sharing her with our community and our country.”
“In doing so, we honour Arab heritage in the only way that ultimately matters, by ensuring that the sons and daughters of that heritage can flourish here as free people in a free country. That is the Canada worth building and the heritage worth respecting.”
“Grand ideologies, whether imported socialism dressed as pan-Arab unity or political Islamism promising moral regeneration, have repeatedly subordinated practical governance and individual agency to abstractions with measurable costs in human welfare and stability. Pragmatic leadership that builds institutions, welcomes talent and measures success by results has produced different outcomes. The shift in Arab attention toward those who deliver is rational and observable. The best tribute the House can offer is to defend the conditions that allow such contributions to continue, such as the rule of law, free enterprise, open inquiry, secure borders and a confident national identity that does not require citizens to shed their inheritances, but requires them to uphold the common principles that make Canada work.”
“I would say to our Arab Canadian brothers and sisters that their presence here is not a footnote to someone else's story. From the mighty Nabateans in the times of Rome and the great works of philosophers like Avicenna and Averroës to the modern resilience of a people who have endured and created across centuries, they bring the depth of an ancient linguistic and cultural inheritance and the determination of those who chose this country. Canada is stronger for it. We honour that heritage best not by reducing it to grievance or slogan, but by recognizing its complexity, achievements and continuing capacity to add to a free and self-governing society. The lessons of the past 80 years are not obscure.”
“In Canada, they have found what many Arab societies have struggled to secure: the protection of individual rights, the rule of law and the possibility of advancement based on merit rather than connection or ideology. Christian and Muslim Arabs alike participate in our institutions on equal terms. That participation is not an accident of geography, but a product of a political order that treats citizens as individuals first. Where Arab citizens enjoy full equality and democratic participation elsewhere, we see another demonstration that liberal institutions remain the most reliable framework for minority flourishing and Arab talent alike, such as with Arab Israelis, both Christian and Muslim, who serve in the Knesset, the courts and the professions.”
“Nearly 800,000 Canadians identify as Arab, a population that has more than tripled in two decades through immigration and natural increase. They come from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Maghrib, the Gulf states, and elsewhere, the full geographic and human diversity of the Arab world. Many arrived as economic immigrants chosen for their skills. Others rebuilt lives after conflict or persecution. They have contributed in every domain that matters to a modern society, such as enterprise and professional excellence, medicine and engineering, scholarship and the arts, and public service and community building. They have done so while sustaining family structures and work habits that strengthen rather than erode our national social fabric.”
“It is the product of a confident Arab leadership, not imported dogma. It is therefore unsurprising that the clerical military regime in Tehran, whose revolutionary ideology has relied on exporting instability and targeting pragmatic Arab success stories, has directed proxy attacks and threats against the UAE in recent years. (1750) Success is an indictment of alternatives. Across the Arab world, the poles of cultural and aspirational gravity have shifted. The old centres, Cairo under its successive experiments, Damascus in its long decline and Baghdad amid its traumas, no longer set the tone they once did. Increasingly, younger Arabs, entrepreneurs and reformers look to Abu Dhabi and Dubai for working models of modernity, prosperity and competent governance. Rhetoric has yielded to results. This story is not abstract for Canada.”
“In the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan built a federation from tribal foundations with a realism and self-confidence rare in the post-colonial era. He prioritized education, infrastructure and competent administration over ideological display. His heirs have extended that project with measurable success: deliberate diversification away from hydrocarbons into technology, finance, tourism, logistics and advanced industry; sustained investment in human capital; and a foreign policy of pragmatic partnerships. The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, which is a single complex containing a mosque, a church and a synagogue, embodies this approach in built form. It is a deliberate statement of coexistence among the Abrahamic traditions, not their subordination.”
“They spoke to real grievances and offered a language of renewal that resonated with many, yet the empirical record where such policies gained real influence is clear: deepened social polarization; restrictions on dissent and on minority communities, including long-established Christian-era populations across the Levant, Egypt and Iraq; economic policies that often failed to generate broad prosperity; and in their most extreme expressions, the incubation of violence that has scarred societies from the Maghrib to the Mashriq and beyond. The costs in emigration of talent, institutional decay and cycles of instability are measurable and ongoing. There is a striking exception to these patterns, though, and it deserves our attention.”
“Several societies that followed this path paid in lost decades of growth, suppressed enterprise and the entrenchment of regimes more interested in control than in the human capital of their citizens. The ideology functioned, whatever the intentions of its adherents, as a barrier to the very western institutions, markets and habits of mind that had accelerated development elsewhere. A second answer rose in reaction. Islamist movements, beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood, presented themselves as moral alternatives to corrupt dictatorships and failed secular experiments.”
“It is not a monolith but a living inheritance of peoples who have been both creators and custodians of civilization. That inheritance met the modern world in difficult circumstances. After the Second World War, many Arab societies sought dignity, development and independence. One dominant answer was the pan-Arab socialism of Gamal Abdel Nasser. It drew on Soviet models of central direction and anti-western posture, promising to sweep away colonial legacies and unite the Arabs under a single political and economic project. In practice, it produced authoritarian structures, economic rigidities and repeated foreign policy failures. The United Arab Republic with Syria collapsed quickly. The 1967 war exposed deeper weaknesses.”
“It is above all a linguistic continuum, the Arabic language acting as a thread that has held together a vast and varied human tapestry from the first recorded mentions of Arabs, in Assyrian records of 853 BCE, through the tribal poetry and trading kingdoms of the peninsula, the urban sophistication of the Levant, the Berber and Arab worlds of the Maghrib and the nomadic traditions of the Bedouin. Pre-Islamic Arabs were already a presence on the margins of greater empires, their poets celebrating honour, resilience and the stark beauties of desert life. The latter expansion of Arabic carried with it not only faith but administration, scholarship and a capacity for synthesis that absorbed and advanced the learning of others. This is the deep inheritance we acknowledge today.”
“Mr. Speaker, as the House marks Arab heritage month, I rise not for the ritual gestures that too often accompany such observances but to speak plainly about a civilization whose story stretches across three millennia and whose people have become part of our own. These calendar designations can slide into performance, but they can also compel us to examine substance, the actual inheritance of language, memory and achievement and the choices that have shaped Arab societies in our time. I intend to do the latter. In his indispensable book Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires , scholar Tim Mackintosh-Smith demonstrates that Arab identity has never been reducible to a single ethnicity, sect or moment of origin.”
“Mr. Speaker, members should not believe the Liberals when they say that we have the fastest-growing economy in the G7. We are the only one in a recession. The Liberals should try telling that to the mom skipping meals so her children will not. They should tell that to the grandma at the food bank who is just trying to put Sunday dinner on the table. They should tell that to the student whose future has been stolen. There are 112,000 jobs gone, a trillion dollars of investment gone and $670 billion in generational jobs gone. It is not wars. It is not tariffs. It is the Prime Minister 's record. Which Liberal will get up to defend that?”
“One must ask, as I conclude, if the member draws some satisfaction from the Liberal Prime Minister 's carrying on his legacy.”
“Let me just say that it is a complex issue, because we know that his policies have caused hardships for over a decade. His policies have caused so much hardship for so many families across this country that the price that has been paid by millions of Canadians for his determination has been a very heartbreaking one for all Canadians to bear witness to, but rest assured that his legacy lives on with the current Liberal Prime Minister . The Prime Minister has kept the tanker ban in place. The Prime Minister has kept the “no more pipelines” ban. The Prime Minister has kept the net-zero doctrine. He has kept the EV mandate. The Prime Minister has made sure that his legacy of plastic lids on coffee has been maintained, and in Calgary we cannot use compostable bags. He has kept the industrial carbon tax.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am a rookie in the chamber, a new member of Parliament having served barely, not even, three years. However, I can acknowledge that public service comes at a price, a cost to our friends, our family and all our loved ones. The hon. member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie certainly has committed himself to this service. We could say that he has very deep convictions. Perhaps we would not agree on anything. Probably we would not agree on anything, but his deep convictions might have been taken a bit too literally by him over the years. In fact, as colleagues may know, the hon. member was arrested in Lakeview in my riding, scaling former premier Ralph Klein's home, and was taken into custody. In a sense, he may have served more time in Calgary than I have.”
“Mr. Speaker, that is some economy those Liberals built. According to MNP, 40% of Canadians are $200 away from insolvency. StatsCan says that the wealthiest now control two-thirds of our net worth. RBC states a trillion dollars, gone. Imagine a third of our jobs, our economy, gone up in smoke. The Liberals want Canadians demoralized, divided and disenfranchised because the Prime Minister knows if they stop believing in this country, he gets to remake it. Which Liberals will stand up to defend that?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that Canadians are keeping up with record costs. MNP reports that gas and grocery prices are straining three out of four Canadians. Two out of three Canadians are working harder but not getting ahead. One out of three Canadians cannot cover their bills and their debt payments. Yesterday, the Prime Minister voted against our motion to cut all taxes on gas and diesel until the end of the year. Nobody is keeping up, except the rich whom the Prime Minister keeps making richer. Why punish the poor even more, when the Liberals can scrap the tax on gas today?”
“We do not need platitudes; we need decisions. We do not need middling thinking; we need the strength and ambition of a major power right now.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Financial Times reports that LNG flows from the gulf could be disrupted within days with a glut of demand, a European fuel shortage, Beijing's control over rare earth minerals and Russia's leverage over energy. The world is now scrambling for everything Canada has. Alberta's 158 billion barrels of oil and enough natural gas to power the world for 200 years is landlocked. KXL, energy east and northern gateway with $55 billion in growth are gone; $11 billion a year from LNG alone is gone; while $670 billion in projects and generational jobs is gone. Imagine a country this vast in resources, yet half of its people live paycheque to paycheque. We should not be strengthening Beijing's new world order. We should be replacing it instead with one underpinned by Canadian resources. We do not need bureaucracy; we need projects.”
“Madam Chair, I remain a huge fan of your work and your stewardship in this chamber. I am pleased to speak before you today. I would like to take a minute to congratulate my colleague, the member for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill . He has been a powerful voice for the great people of his communities. We are so honoured to have him in this Parliament to champion their cause and be such a clarion voice for their interests, their values and their dignity. I would like to ask the hon. member for his assessment of what his constituents are advising him, with respect to the confusion they have heard from Liberal leaders giving four different messages over four days in the period of a week. Even during tonight's take-note debate, we do not have a clear sense of what the government's actual position is.”
“Madam Chair, I want to take a minute to congratulate my colleague for his incredible speech and for his clarity of moral conviction and our national interests. He has been a powerful voice in Parliament for the people of Quebec, and they must be confused about what the Prime Minister and the foreign minister have said over the past week: four positions over four days, and still no clarity in tonight's take-note debate. I would ask my friend and hon. colleague this: What do Quebeckers think of the confused, equivocating and unprincipled Liberals?”
“Mr. Chair, I thank the hon. member for her question and the offering of her wisdom. What we have seen in the wars over the last 20 years are mistakes and errors that might have been corrected had we had today's wisdom, but we did not. Today, what we have is the story of the Iranian people themselves. They are among the most pro-western civilizational strengths the region has to offer, despite the occupation of the regime for 47 years over its own people. The Iranian people go back millennia to Cyrus the Great and the cylinder, which is now before the United Nations, describing one of the first instances of human freedom, human dignity and religious freedom. It is that aspiration that is now piercing through the veil of this 47-year-old tyranny, and the people of Iran are at a point where they have had enough of their government.”
“Mr. Chair, I join my hon. colleague in standing with the women of Iran and women around the world. I appreciate the fact that she took some time to honour what this is all about. The “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement is part of a longer Iranian story of women's suffrage. For 47 years, women in Iran have been subjugated by the clerical military dictatorship to a radical ideology that has denied them education, opportunity, a franchise and a democracy. It has denied them the freedoms they are born into. When we saw the uprisings on January 8 and 9 begin, we saw young Iranians from across the country stand up for their own freedom, and it was the women who paid the severest price. The kind of tools of oppression the regime uses is brutal beyond what I can say in this chamber and something we must hold to account.”
“Mr. Chair, the hon. member is on point. He knows what he has been talking about in defence of the Iranian people for a very long time. He is a true champion of our communities across Canada, which are hearing conflicted messages. There have been four positions over four days, including one from the Prime Minister , who once said that the rules-based international order was over, yet only days ago, he said that we have to uphold international law and the rules-based international order. I am not confident the Prime Minister is clear in his own mind. It is not clear what his government stands for, and it is clear his caucus is completely divided. For our Iranian communities here at home, it is devastating at a time when they need clear leadership.”
“It is about fulfilling the ancient promise of Cyrus the Great. To the Iranian community in Canada and around the world, this is their moment. The ancient light of their civilization now pierces through the darkness of the last 47 years. The Prime Minister began with strong measures but now wavers between strength and de-escalation. De-escalation with the regime that launches missiles at its neighbours and massacres its own people is not policy; it is appeasement. The Iranian people deserve their freedom. The region deserves peace. Canada must have the moral clarity and act on our interests to stand on the right side of history.”
“In Venezuela, we see an unchallenged authoritarian consolidation. In Crimea and Donbass, we see a policy of strategic management. Between Syrian former president Bashar al-Assad and ISIS, we see containment. In Hong Kong and Xinjiang, we see performative theatre. In Kabul, we see retreat. In Tehran, we see entreaties. The democratic world's aversion to confronting authoritarians for what they are, instead of longing for a return to an elusive normal they wish they had, can be summed up in one word: appeasement. In two years, China has become the principal external supplier of Iran's ballistic missiles and now buys nearly 90% of its oil. However, this moment is bigger than one regime's collapse. It is about the Iranian people, the millions who have suffered and the thousands who have died for freedom.”
“The west's nihilistic obsession with postmodernism swelled, imbued with performative stances on issues ranging from human dignity to energy security and an incapacity to define and confront the threat of a rising illiberal age. Russia turned to the Iranian regime for drone technologies and to China for discounted energy as an instigator for the chaos in the west militarily and through exploiting moral equivalencies. Two lifetime rulers, undeterred by well-intentioned protestations and unbowed by democratic resolve, stood in their shared vision of their own dominance over their neighbours and the world. From their vantage, at every turn over the last decade, the democratic world adhered to a pattern of half measures to conciliate, failing to make the hard decisions that would defend us against their authoritarian ambitions.”
“The G7 expanded to include Russia, creating the G8, and NATO established confidence measures and the NATO-Russia Council. China was granted most favoured trading status, a seat at the World Trade Organization and prominence in multilateral organizations. None of this was earned. Neither Russia nor China divested their military ambitions, dispensed with their revanchism or displaced arbitrary authoritarian rule with democracy and open markets. As their decisions to decouple from the international system compounded, as they pursued dreams of dual circulation to export boldly while curtailing access to domestic markets and as the state capitalist belt and road initiative challenged democratic capitalism, democracies grew more complacent and prone to elite capture and corruption.”
“After 47 years of the Islamic Republic and 37 years under Ali Khamenei, the record is damning. This is the regime that stormed the American embassy and took diplomats hostage, while brave Canadians helped some escape. It is obsessed with destroying Israel, has pioneered roadside bombs, built an empire of proxy militias, sustained Bashar al-Assad's butchery over his own people and brutalized its own citizens over the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement. In recent weeks, the regime has massacred tens of thousands of Iranians, all while racing toward nuclear weapons. Who helped fuel this final sprint? The Kremlin and the Middle Kingdom saw their partner in the clerical military dictatorship. Russia and China want a new age of empires. They have been afforded the west's best intentions.”
“Today, in response to more than 1,000 missiles and drones, the Emiratis defend their country with extraordinary precision. Their systems worked. Their people were protected. Why does this regime attack Abu Dhabi and Dubai with such aggression? It is because these shining cities represent everything the Iranian regime fears. While the Middle East has moved forward toward prosperity and opportunity, Tehran remains trapped in its same dark obsessions. For 20 years, I have warned about this regime. In Iraq, I have worked with Iranian dissidents. For that, Tehran branded me a terrorist. Later, as an adviser to former prime minister Harper and former minister John Baird, I helped close the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, strengthen nuclear inspections and provide political space to millions of Iranians to speak freely.”
“Mr. Chair, it has been a war of our medieval rivals over the civilization we have built, a war borne of post-war and Cold War anti-colonial uprisings and of Communism's fall in the Soviet Union reanimated from Beijing today, and a war of nearly a half century cast in modern technologies, the globalized economy we have built and the moral equivalencies we have fallen to. I rise having just returned from Abu Dhabi, where the closing chapter of this regime began to unfold before my very eyes. As I watched Emirati interceptors engage Iranian ballistic missiles overhead, missiles and drones enabled by Beijing's technology, I was taken back 20 years ago to when I was in Iraq watching Iranian Katyusha rockets falling over Baghdad.”
“Mr. Speaker, there is no action, no details and no surprise. Shame on the Liberals. The Prime Minister is all over the map, with four positions in four days. He supported the decisions of our allies in confronting the Iranian regime at first, as legitimate and lawful. Then he regretted the strikes. Then he would not rule out Canadian military action. Even his own caucus does not know what his position is. All this is with a regime that has killed 150 Canadians on a passenger plane and continues to intimidate Canadians. Our people want to know what the Prime Minister is doing to secure us here at home. When will the Liberals finally deport IRGC officials?”
“Mr. Speaker, under the Liberals, foreign conflicts have spilled onto our streets. Their politics and soft-on-crime agenda have made Canadians unsafe. Three GTA synagogues were shot at, and 700 IRGC agents are roaming our streets. We have heard only condemnations and thoughts and prayers. An Iranian dissident has now gone missing, with police probing a possible Tehran-linked homicide. Liberal ministers failed to secure borders and failed to deport hundreds of IRGC agents. Decide today. Deport these agents of terror today.”
“Mr. Speaker, as an hon. member of the government, he could get rid of the appeal process today if he chose to. I do not understand why he did not. Conservatives have had to sit here and watch the Liberal government divide Canadians over a decade of terrible immigration policy and terrible justice policy, terrible policies that have resulted in chaos across the streets of Canada. Conservatives have stepped up today with a motion to fix a difficult problem that Liberals created because Liberals refuse to take the steps that they must. What they should do is take our advice in earnest and implement it in full. Our motion would help Canada perform better despite the egregious pains that the Liberal government has caused Canada for well over a decade.”
“Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is a hard-working person for the great people he represents. He does great work in the House every single day. No, it is not. In fact, the inequality of services being provided to people who have paid into the system for a lifetime, our seniors, is not matched by the deluxe care that fake refugee claimants are being provided in the country. It is absolutely an unjust system that is taking advantage of those who have paid into it and preferencing those who are here to exploit it or, worse, to commit acts of extortion or terrorism or other federal crimes.”
“Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague's question is well thought out and considered. The problem is not necessarily the law. The problem is that it is not being implemented. People are not being kicked out properly. Judges are acting in the interest of process over justice. That requires remedial effort right away.”
“We are a constitutional monarchy where the laws are written by the people and their democracy, not the ruler by diktat. We are a promise, and ours is a promise to keep. For the millions in this country who do not respect that this is the core of our national identity, the core of our national sovereignty and the core of who we are and what we are here to defend, then comes the uneasy task of demanding that the government members remove those who they, themselves, brought in.”
“Let me conclude with this: Who are we? The danger of creating one set of rules for one and another set of rules for the next is that it attacks the very idea of our national sovereignty, the very idea of our national identity and the very idea of the nation we seek to build together. If I could carve something onto the desk of every border official, every bureaucrat, every judge, every legislator and every academic, it would read that Canada is the third-oldest democracy on planet earth. We are heirs of the British Magna Carta and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man. We are an inheritance forged by first nations and newcomers, the scars they endured together through wars, depressions and hard times, and the promise they built together.”
“Rejected asylum claimants get emergency care only. Foreign criminals face full consequences. Fairness is not sacrificing our neighbours so that someone from outside the country can get better care than them. What do the Liberals want me to do? Should I go back to my riding and tell a grandmother that she has to wait seven months for care while someone who is not even from here, who could be illegal, a criminal or a terrorist, gets better care before her? What am I supposed to tell an immigrant who comes to this country to build something new, who through the sweat on their brow and the pain in their back has contributed to building up this country? What am I supposed to tell that immigrant when those who follow are exploiting the broken Liberal system? Am I supposed to tell them that playing by the rules did not matter?”
“If someone break the law in Canada, whether they are a Canadian or a foreign national, they should face the consequences. That is equality before the law. Our people expect nothing less. Let us look at the numbers and the costs. We are spending $896 million in health benefits today and $1.5 billion by 2030 for people who are not taxpayers and have no legal standing to be here. Where is it going? The Liberals have failed to answer. The Conservatives will demand every dollar tracked, every service justified and no more blank cheques. Every taxpayer dollar spent must go to service Canadians first. We are not talking ideology here. We are talking about the Canadian promise: an affordable home, an affordable life, health care when someone needs it and safe streets. We are moving this motion to restore fairness, restore order and restore trust.”
“This is a loophole that rewards lawbreakers and punishes Canadians. When someone is charged with a crime, they should face the full weight of the justice system with no loopholes and no preferential treatment because of where they filed paperwork. Our motion calls on the government to immediately expel foreign nationals who commit serious crimes, with no soft landings, no loopholes and no special carve-outs. We are calling for stronger enforcement. When violent offenders, gang members or organized crime suspects are caught, they must be removed. Communities cannot flourish when criminals exploit loopholes in the law. Families cannot feel secure when the system is rigged against them. Canadians deserve a justice system that works for them first.”
“When someone files an asylum application, it can trigger automatic stays of removal, meaning they get to stay here until their case is reviewed. Across Canada, there are reported cases of individuals charged with violent offences, trafficking and gang-related crimes who, by filing asylum or refugee claims, remain in the country longer, sometimes for months or even years. In British Columbia, law enforcement uncovered organized extortion rings where multiple suspects used refugee claim filings to halt their removal. They tied up enforcement resources and frustrated victims for months. Their legal status keeps shifting and enforcement is stalled. When it comes to assault, theft, fraud and extortion, Canadians face immediate consequences, while foreign nationals can delay, postpone or even avoid sentencing for years using asylum claims.”
“We will review federal benefits provided to asylum claimants to identify savings for taxpayers. We will stop overwhelming our communities with numbers the system simply cannot handle. (1655) We are a generous nation and Calgary is a generous city, but generosity requires discipline. Compassion requires fairness. If we cannot care for our own people first, we are not governing. We are failing our citizens. Then there is the law. Under the Liberal government, foreign nationals here on asylum can commit crimes and, in some cases, avoid meaningful consequences because the system prioritizes process over justice. If we have two people charged with the same crime, one is a Canadian and the other one is not, and the consequences are not equal, that is unacceptable. Let us be clear about how this problem manifests in real life.”
“Emergency rooms are overflowing. However, the Liberals do not raise alarm bells. They open the floodgates to more people, more arrivals, more strain and more chaos. Tax season is coming, and this is a fair question for anyone who is working their butt off and cannot get ahead: Where is all this money going? They cannot buy a home. They cannot get health care in a reasonable time. They can hardly afford to put food on the table, and Liberals keep telling them everything is fine. No, it is not. A government's job is not to micromanage our lives or pick our pockets to fund its failed experiments. A government's job is not to put foreign nationals, criminals and terrorists ahead of its own people. It is to put Canadians and Canada first. Conservatives will ensure health care is available to Canadians first.”