Vincent Ho
Richmond Hill South, Ontario · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, when I speak to my constituents, a lot of the concerns they talk about have to do with the affordability crisis and the housing hell the Liberal government has created after 11 years in power.”
“The PBO also warned that repeated spending increases beyond previous projections will “erode the credibility of fiscal plans and weaken confidence in the fiscal framework and raise concerns about long-term [debt] sustainability.” That is the exact credibility crisis that this Liberal Prime Minister finds himself in, because a fiscal ancho…”
“The only thing we know is that this brand new bureaucracy is staffed with Liberal insiders and executives who are collecting salaries as high as $700,000 a year. This reflects a classic principal-agent problem. Taxpayers are the principals, while Liberal government institutions and their corporate insiders are the agents.”
“That should alarm every member of the House. It is not only the PBO. The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, a global agency that the Liberals love to cite, has now called on Canada to adopt international accounting standards to improve transparency, ensure comparability over time and maintain a clear connection between borrowing and de…”
“Mr. Speaker, when historians study the fiscal decline of nations, they often note that collapse rarely begins with a dramatic event. It begins with habits: habits of indiscipline, habits of euphemism, habits of pretending that borrowing is prosperity, that inflationary spending is strategy and that accounting definitions can be stretched…”
“The Liberals already have the Infrastructure Bank, the growth fund and the defence bank. They have agency after agency, fund after fund and office after office, and the result is that Canada still has the worst investment performance in the G7. This is textbook government failure.”
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“When they finally swore the oath to become Canadian citizens, it meant something. It was a moment they longed for, a moment they dreamt about, and a moment of immense pride and earned belonging. While the Liberals have spent the last 10 years erasing the very heritage that defines who we are as a country, they are now turning the page and undermining what it means to be a Canadian citizen. When the Liberal government tabled Bill C-3 , a bill that offers automatic Canadian citizenship to people who have never stepped foot in this country, never paid taxes here, never even expressed a desire to live here, and never even sang O Canada under our proud flag, I could not stay silent. This bill sends a clear message to my constituents in Richmond Hill South.”
“In my riding, many new Canadians came here fleeing war, political persecution or economic hardship. They are people who sacrificed everything just to give their children a chance at a better life. Many of them came from places, such as Iran, where dissidents are jailed for speaking freely by a brutal totalitarian regime. Others came from Hong Kong, where democracy and freedom are eroding. Some came from China to seek a better life for their children. Still others arrived from post-war Europe with little more than the clothes in their suitcases. These people did not just arrive here with a passport offered to them. They built the foundations of Canada with their bare hands. They all came here to build a better life, and they made Canada stronger in the process.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today, not just as the member of Parliament for Richmond Hill South, but as a representative of one of the ridings with the highest concentration of first-generation and second-generation Canadians, where close to 90% of residents are either immigrants to Canada themselves or have parents who were immigrants to Canada. This is not just a statistic. It is the lived experience of my constituents. These are families that came to this country with nothing but hope, a Canadian promise and a work ethic. These are people who took jobs that kept this country running, in engineering, nursing homes or small businesses. These are people who waited years, followed every rule, got an education, trained, recertified for jobs, studied for their citizenship exams, paid their taxes, paid their dues and did everything right.”
“These attacks are part of a disturbing pattern across the country fuelled by 10 years of Liberal soft-on-crime policies. Communities are living in fear, and violence is becoming the new normal. Conservatives call for ending catch-and-release, bringing back mandatory prison time and keeping our streets safe. It is time to end the revolving-door justice system and lock up the criminals for good.”
“Mr. Speaker, we all remember fond childhood experiences. For me, I grew up going to Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill with my family. It is a place where, for over half a century, seniors gathered at the food court for coffee and families came to shop and connect. It was always a safe, welcoming space and a pillar of our community. Just last week, another violent robbery at Hillcrest Mall shook our community. This time, jewellery store employees were pepper-sprayed and assaulted in a terrifying smash-and-grab. The mall was locked down and hundreds of shoppers, including young children, were left terrified. A few days later, arrests were made, and what did we learn? The suspects were repeat offenders who were out on bail after committing another violent robbery.”
“Mr. Speaker, only the Liberal government could spend more taxpayer money and deliver less. Its so-called housing accelerator fund gave the City of Toronto $471 million, and what did Canadians get in return? According to the Liberal government's own housing agency, Toronto's housing starts dropped a whopping 58% compared to last year. This is a classic example of a Liberal-style failure. The Liberals spend taxpayer money, grab a nice photo op, and then walk away while fewer homes are built. Will the housing minister finally admit that this Liberal bureaucracy fails to build homes while the next generation of Canadians fall further behind?”
“Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his remarks and for a wonderful speech. The Liberals want Canadians to believe this was just a one-off misstep in government procurement, but the facts seem to tell a very different story. It seems to be a troubling pattern. In 2020, the Liberal government awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a two-person shell company, which raised eyebrows across the country. However, instead of learning from that decision, the government doubled down. It kept handing out multiple contracts to this company, and some of these contracts were multiple times larger. My question is this: Should Canadians be outraged at this pattern of Liberal mismanagement?”
“Mr. Speaker, it would cost the average Canadian $5,100 per year. To put it in terms the Minister of Transport would understand, that is a lot of Disney+ subscriptions. Is it not true that the Liberal government has not done anything in the last 10 years to address the interprovincial trade barriers that you just admitted exist?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Constitution gives the federal government jurisdiction over interprovincial trade, and that is under the purview of the minister. Has the Liberal government ever exercised federal jurisdiction in the last 10 years over interprovincial trade barriers?”
“Mr. Speaker, it is 36%. That is according to the government's website. Is this imbalance not evidence that the Liberal government has failed to support Canadian companies doing business with each other?”
“Mr. Speaker, the answer is 66%, according to his government's website. While he accuses us of not reading, I guess he does not read his website either. How much of our GDP is interprovincial trade worth?”
“It is time to punish organized crime, stop the flow of deadly drugs going across our borders, keep criminals behind bars and bring home safety to our streets. Enough is enough. The Liberal government needs to stop handcuffing our police officers and finally start handcuffing the criminals and keeping them in jail.”
“Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, Canada is barely recognizable. We used to be a country where seniors could walk to the park in peace and where parents could let their kids walk to school safely, but not anymore. Just yesterday, York Regional Police executed 15 search warrants in Richmond Hill and neighbouring communities against criminal organizations. Twenty-three people were arrested, with over 300 charges laid and 32 illegal firearms seized, and 700,000 doses of fentanyl, enough to kill a city, were found. In another case from the Toronto Police Service, 10 criminals were arrested after a mass shooting on March 7, multiple guns were seized and 200 criminal charges were laid, including 24 counts of murder. This is what happens when the Liberals govern with ideology instead of common sense.”
“Let us make no mistake; mass fentanyl production is mass murder. The fentanyl kingpins should be locked up and treated as the mass murderers that they are. It is time to invest in treatment and recovery, and to bring our loved ones home drug-free.”
“Mr. Speaker, since 2016, over 50,000 Canadians have died from the Liberal-sponsored opioid crisis. Over 80% of accidental opioid deaths involve fentanyl, and it takes just two milligrams of fentanyl to kill someone. The Liberals legalized possession of 2,500 milligrams of fentanyl. That means possessing 1,200 lethal doses is permitted. This is not the public health solution the Liberals make it out to be. It is a public safety threat that is ripping up communities all across Canada. What is the Liberal response? Recently, the Prime Minister said that the fentanyl crisis is not a crisis at all and downplayed it as a mere “challenge”. Conservatives are calling for mandatory life imprisonment for anyone involved in the trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 milligrams of fentanyl.”
“Mr. Speaker, it is not fearmongering. This is just the reality we live in. It is a crime wave. Carjackings are up; home invasions are up; violent crime is up; gun crime is up. The Liberals sponsored this catch-and-release policy. The flower shop I go to got robbed. The grocery store I normally go to got robbed. My dentist got robbed. My pharmacist got robbed. My optometrist got robbed, too. My neighbours have gotten robbed, and my friends have gotten robbed. Everyone has been robbed. This is a serious issue. It is time for the Liberals to finally take action.”
“Mr. Speaker, 50,000 people have died from this opioid crisis in the last 10 years. That death toll is higher than that of the Second World War. This is the human tragedy we are talking about: the failed drug policies, the decriminalization of hard drugs, drugs like crack cocaine and fentanyl, which the Liberals have sponsored federally. With things like fentanyl, 2.5 grams of fentanyl can kill every member of Parliament. This is how lethal a 2.5-gram dose of fentanyl is, yet it is legal. We need to start locking up the fentanyl kingpins for the mass murderers they are.”
“They are gainfully employed, sometimes even working two jobs, but they cannot afford to buy a home. They have done everything that society has asked of them, but they cannot afford to buy a home.”
“Mr. Speaker, let us not let the Liberals distract us from their horrible record over the last 10 years, the crime wave they have unleashed into our communities and the housing crisis they have perpetuated in the last 10 years. When I was knocking on doors during the last election campaign, that is what I was hearing. It is this housing crisis that the Liberal government has perpetuated. I have spoken to so many young people at the doors over this election, 30-year-olds, 35-year-olds, 40-year-olds living in these beautiful single-family homes, townhomes and single detached homes. When they tell me about their issues, they do not actually live in those homes. It is their parents' homes. This is the housing crisis that the Liberals have created and that they are living in.”
“I will fight for that Canadian promise, a country that is safe, affordable and free, a country that is not obsessed with our differences but focused on what unites us, a country where compassion is measured not by the size of the government but by the faith and strength of our communities, a country where freedom is not a gift from government but a birthright of every Canadian citizen, a country that believes in responsibility, not excuses, and in celebrating success, not sabotaging it. That is the Canada I will fight for. That is the Canada that Richmond Hill deserves. That is the Canada we will build together.”
“It should not take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get a permit to build a home. Nurses should be able to afford to live near the hospital they work at, and tradespeople should be able to afford to live in the homes that they themselves have helped build. People are not just angry or frustrated anymore; they are losing hope. They are suffocating. Misery is becoming the new normal. When one cannot walk down the street without fear, when housing is completely out of reach and wages are stagnant, when work is punished and bureaucracy is rewarded, our country cannot thrive. I believe in the resilience of Canadians. I believe in the strength of our values and the promise of our future.”
“Young couples are delaying and even forgoing starting a family because they are completely priced out. Mortgage payments and rents have doubled, while incomes have stayed flat or even declined. Young families are being priced out of their communities completely, while government funding creates more bureaucracy than housing. Plain and simple, the Liberals have orchestrated a supply crisis and perpetuated the housing hell that an entire generation is forced to endure. We need to incentivize municipalities to build more homes faster. We need to require results and accountability, not endless reports and consultants where no strings are attached to Liberal federal funding. We need to remove the gatekeepers who delay and deny projects that Canadians desperately need.”
“It means ending the self-sabotaging and anti-energy policies, yet the throne speech makes no mention of Canada's oil and gas sector, which is Canada's most vital industry. We need to be a country where a good idea can become a business, and a business can then become an industry; where students see a future not of delay and scarcity, but of drive and abundance; where we can make things again, build things again and grow things again, with the Canadian worker at the centre of it all. That is the difference between members on this side of the House and those opposite. Conservatives want to grow the pie for Canadians, while Liberals want to think of ways to slice it up among themselves. Nowhere is the failure of the Liberal government's policies more obvious than in the housing market.”
“No Canadian should be out of work because the Liberal government refuses to get out of the way. We must unleash the potential of our economy. That means cutting Liberal red tape that chokes small businesses. It means speeding up project approval so we can develop our natural resources responsibly, build infrastructure and attract investment. It means rewarding entrepreneurship, embracing innovation and making it easier, not harder, for Canadians to build and create. Next, we must champion pipeline development, not just as an energy policy, but as a nation-building project. We need to get our resources to market, create thousands of high-paying jobs and strengthen our energy sovereignty.”
“This is not about reducing emissions; this is economic punishment of hard-working families that are feeling the squeeze more than ever before. We need to stop punishing work and productivity and sabotaging our country's competitiveness. That starts with axing the carbon tax for good and letting Canadians keep more of their hard-earned money. It also means addressing the deeper issue created by the Liberal government: the productivity crisis that is dragging our economy down globally and depriving working-class Canadians of a chance to get ahead. Investment is fleeing. Productivity is declining. Factories are shutting down. Good-paying jobs are vanishing. That is not just bad for business; it is bad for workers, for wages and for our long-term growth.”
“Lastly, we must punish the fentanyl kingpins as the mass murderers they are. Every Canadian deserves the chance to rebuild their lives, and that starts with a system that helps them get off drugs, not keep them addicted. Our streets became less safe from government-sponsored chaos, but also our economy is now in decline from a decade of Liberal vandalism. Canadians are being squeezed from every direction: groceries, gas, heating and housing. It is all going up, and people are falling behind. (1710) The Liberal job-killing industrial carbon tax is driving up the cost of everything, especially for those who can least afford it. Farmers, truckers and working families are all paying more while the out-of-touch government offers less.”
“Opioid drug overdoses have risen to record levels under the Liberals' disastrous policies, claiming the lives of over 50,000 Canadians, a death toll that now exceeds that of the Second World War. The so-called safe supply policies and safe injection site experiments have utterly failed. Liberal government-supplied drugs have flooded our streets, compounding the pain and suffering of those already impacted by addictions. Decriminalizing hard drugs and giving out needles from vending machines have turned our neighbourhoods into open drug scenes where overdose deaths continue to rise, not fall. This is not harm reduction. This is government-orchestrated harm promotion. We need a new path, a path that offers real hope, real healing and real recovery. We must focus on treatment over trauma. Solutions must be rooted in dignity, not dependency.”
“It is a system where criminals convicted of serious offences get house arrest rather than mandatory prison time, and criminals with consecutive convictions are rewarded with discounted sentences. This is an injustice and a slap in the face to the victims. While the Prime Minister talks a big game about addressing crime, his throne speech does not mention ending the Liberal revolving-door, get-out-of-jail-free justice system. We need to restore real consequences for violent crime and stand up for victims, not criminals. Without law and order, there can be no freedom, no prosperity and no peace of mind. However, safety is not just about crime. It is also about confronting the devastating Liberal-sponsored drug crisis, which has been destroying lives and families all across Canada.”
“Violent incidents, gang activities, carjackings and home invasions, often committed by repeat offenders, by the way, are becoming all too common all across Canada. Let me be clear: This is not fearmongering. It is a reality the people of Richmond Hill live with each and every day. I have spoken to seniors who do not feel safe walking to the park, to parents who worry when their kids walk to school, and to small business owners who have been robbed on multiple occasions while the criminals walk free. Public safety must never be a partisan issue. However, under the Liberal government, a catch-and-release bail system allows repeat offenders to cycle in and cycle out of custody, all while our communities suffer the consequences.”
“During my election campaign, I had the opportunity to talk to many people in Richmond Hill South. Our team knocked on 100,000 doors, and I want to champion in this chamber the issues that I heard about. Unlike the Liberals, who feel no urgency to table a budget on time, I stand here today with a clear mission: to fight for policies that will restore safety in our streets, affordability in our economy, respect for our seniors and opportunity for the next generation of Canadians. Let us start with what should be the simplest promise a government can make: to keep Canadians safe. Because of the Liberals' decade-long soft-on-crime approach, an unprecedented crime wave has been unleashed into our communities across the country. It has been keeping our communities up at night.”
“To my colleagues in the Conservative caucus, it is a tremendous privilege to stand alongside each and every one of them. Before running for office, I was a corporate lawyer. I have four degrees from Canada's top universities, and I am licensed to practise law in Canada and the United States. I was a CFA charterholder and a partner at a major law firm. I gave that all up and entered public service not to see government grow, but to see opportunity grow and make way for bigger and prouder citizens; not to see failure excused, but to see merit rewarded; not to see Canadians divided by region, creed or conflicts abroad, but to see them united under a proud flag and behind a shared promise: the promise of a country where hard work pays off, justice prevails and the next generation inherits not less, but more.”
“Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise in this chamber for the first time as the newly elected member of Parliament for Richmond Hill South, the place I have called home for the vast majority of my life. I do so with humility and deep gratitude to the people who placed their trust in me and are letting me be their voice. I thank the people of Richmond Hill. They voted for me, for change, and I will fight for that change. They can rest assured that I will fight for their families, their values, and their future every single day in this House. My family's support means the world to me. I thank my parents for everything they have done to get me here. I thank my wife for being part of this journey so we can build a better future for our daughter.”
“Mr. Speaker, according to new data, Ontario's homeowners are missing mortgage payments in record numbers. The 90-day mortgage delinquency rate has jumped 71% since last year. Canadians are facing 40-year inflation highs, lacklustre housing supply and skyrocketing mortgage rates. What does the housing minister have to say? He says that prices do not need to come down. As Vancouver's mayor, he oversaw rent going up 50%, home prices up 179% and homelessness up 40%. Can the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure tell Canadians how many more families must fall behind before his government takes action and finally tables a budget?”