Pierre Poilievre
Battle River—Crowfoot, Alberta · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, for over a century and a half, Canadians took for granted that when people came here from around the world, they left their problems behind.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of the constituents of Battle River—Crowfoot in communities like Amisk, Hardisty, Hughenden, Czar, Metiskow and Lougheed and the MDs of Wainwright, Provost and Flagstaff, who have all raised significant concerns about problems with cellphone coverage and data service, adding to already limited connectivity in…”
“Mr. Speaker, I will tell the member what we are for. We are for an affordable Canada, a Canada with growing paycheques and safer streets, which is the exact opposite of what the Prime Minister has delivered. This is his record: Count them; there have been five consecutive quarters of declining investment.”
“Mr. Speaker, do people know why the Prime Minister cannot stand to answer a question in the House of Commons? It is because he has been wrong about every single economic issue of the last decade. He was wrong to push bigger and broader carbon taxes. He was wrong to say that we should keep half our oil in the ground.”
“Mr. Speaker, no, we do not plan for a restful summer. We plan to fight all summer long against the Liberal recession, Liberal inflation, the rising Liberal cost of living and the rising Liberal crime crisis in our streets. Let us take, for example, investment. The Liberal Prime Minister promised he would increase it.”
“Mr. Speaker, at least the Liberals listened for once. I explained to them that houses are built by plumbers, electricians and carpenters, and the members stood up and said that the building trades build homes. We know who builds homes, but do we know who blocks homes? The Liberals block homes.”
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“That is about half of what is invested in the United States, where they invest $29,000. It a third less than the OECD average. Since coming to power, the Prime Minister has doubled the deficit. Has there been an increase in investment? No. We have lost $54 billion. He promised the American President that his government's policies would take an additional $1 trillion out of Canada over the next five years. More deficits mean less investment. The Liberals did not manage to get the budget to balance itself nor did they manage to spend less to invest more. The alchemists failed to transform the lead of debt into the gold of investment. (1240) [ English ] For centuries, alchemists promised and failed to transform lead into gold, but that is not the surprising part.”
“Mr. Speaker, for centuries, alchemists promised to transform lead into gold, and they failed. What is surprising is that after each failure, they still managed to convince one group of people after another with their promise. Today, the chief alchemist, the Liberal Prime Minister , is promising to transform deficits into investments. He presents this as a new promise, but in reality, it is the same promise the Liberals have been making for 10 years, since October 2015. Given that we have been hearing the same promises for a decade, it is high time to consider whether or not all this is working. Let us take a look at the results. Among the G7 countries, Canada has seen the slowest growth in per-capita investment. Of the G7 countries, we have had the worst GDP per capita. Canada invests $15,000 for every worker here.”
“Mr. Speaker, zero is the paycheque that those workers who have lost their jobs are getting right now. Seventh is last place in the G7 when it comes to growth or, in this case, negative growth. The Prime Minister has to get his excuses straight. He blames the tariffs for the fact that we have the second-highest unemployment in the G7 and the fastest-shrinking economy, and then he claims at the same time that the tariffs are really not so bad. Which is it? Why is our economy so weak? Is it because of his diplomatic failings abroad or his disastrous economic policies at home?”
“Mr. Speaker, he is already signing a deal that makes us worse off because he makes concession after concession while getting nothing in return. Yesterday, he announced that his policies will drive $1 trillion of private sector money out of our country as part of the agreement that he is going to sign with the United States. That means factories and plants closing in Canada, most of all in our auto sector, which is on the verge of being wiped out after he promised to save it. Can the Prime Minister tell me if he demanded that the president lift all tariffs on Canadian auto, yes or no?”
“Mr. Speaker, the president has been warned: If he puts in another tariff, the Prime Minister is going to give him yet another $1 trillion. This is the tough negotiator we hired, the guy who broke his promise to have a deal on July 21, the guy who broke his promise to negotiate a win and who simultaneously removed the countertariffs while he was giving speeches promising to have them in place. Yesterday, he offered more concessions to the U.S. president, knowing that the tariffs that are killing our auto sector would stay in place. Why does he always back down and give our jobs to the Americans instead of standing up for Canada?”
“Mr. Speaker, at least the Prime Minister finally got up, but he did not address the question about auto workers. There are auto workers who are sitting at home right now who do not know how they are going to pay their mortgages. The Prime Minister looked them in the eye and said he was going to protect their jobs. Then he said he would put his elbows up. Then he said he would get a win by July 21. Then he said that he would have a deal. There has been no deal. There has been no win. Now, for these workers, there is no job. Today, we learned that he is backing down again on auto tariffs. Why is it that he is selling out our auto workers at a time when they need him most?”
“Mr. Speaker, I think we are beginning to see how it is that the president has been able to bulldoze the Prime Minister . He will not even stand up when he is confronted by the Americans. Just over an hour ago, a report came out that the U.S. commerce secretary said that there will be no relief for Canadian-made automobiles going into the United States. The Prime Minister has backed down on countertariffs, backed down on the GST and backed down on defence. Yesterday, he promised to push $1 trillion of private sector investment out of our country. How is the Prime Minister going to look those Canadian auto workers in the eye to tell them how he got nothing for them in return?”
“Mr. Speaker, it is really pathetic that the Prime Minister will not stand up for auto workers in the House of Commons, just like he refused to stand up for them yesterday. We have thousands of auto workers who have lost their jobs since the Prime Minister promised to protect them. These families are sitting around their tables, wondering what is going to happen to them. They are among the 86,000 Canadians who have lost their jobs, leading to the second-highest unemployment of any country in the G7. We have record lineups at food banks, and the Prime Minister is giving away $1 trillion in investment to the U.S., while people here cannot even pay their bills. Why will he not stand up now?”
“Mr. Speaker, give me a trillion dollars, and even I will say something nice about the Prime Minister . How much is it going to cost to pay Canadian investment dollars to flatter the Prime Minister's ego? It would make us laugh if it did not make us cry, but how will the workers in Ingersoll, in Windsor and in Oshawa who have lost their jobs after the Prime Minister promised to protect them ever trust the Prime Minister again after he betrayed them?”
“Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister refused to stand up for our auto workers, and today he refuses to stand up for our auto workers. How can he sit right there while the U.S. commerce secretary just came out and said the 25% tariffs will stay in place? Despite the Prime Minister 's concession after concession, like how he backed down on countertariffs, backed down on the DST and yesterday offered $1 trillion of Canadian investment money, still he cannot win anything for our auto workers. What does the Prime Minister say to the thousands of auto workers who are out of work because of his weakness?”
“Mr. Speaker, one day after the Prime Minister went to the White House, promising that he would fight for Canadian workers, we learn from the U.S. commerce secretary that there will be no relief for Canadian finished automobiles. This is after 700 Oshawa GM workers lost their jobs, with $4 billion of GM money going to the U.S.; 900 CAMI workers in Ingersoll lost their jobs, with those jobs going to the U.S.; and 150 workers at Stellantis were sent home, while $8 billion of Stellantis money goes to the U.S. The Prime Minister failed to stand up for auto workers yesterday. Will he do so now?”
“Mr. Speaker, one day after the Prime Minister 's visit to the White House, the U.S. commerce secretary has announced that there will be no relief on tariffs for finished automobiles in Canada. This is after 700 Oshawa GM workers lost their jobs and GM sent $4 billion to the U.S.—”
“Mr. Speaker, Canadians do remember the last election, when the Prime Minister promised to put elbows up. It was not a promise; it was the promise he ran on. Now those elbows have come down. The American tariffs have doubled. We have by far the weakest economy in the G7, 86,000 people have lost their jobs, and, pathetically, the Prime Minister went to the White House to offer a $1-trillion gift, bowing before the president in weakness. Speaking of the last election, where in his platform did he promise to give a trillion of our investment dollars to the Americans?”
“Mr. Speaker, we will go soft on him today, because I know he is recovering from surgery to have his elbows removed. Do we remember that promise? He was dancing around with his elbows in the air. We have not seen those elbows since the election, after which $54 billion of investment went to the United States; 86,000 jobs are gone, and American tariffs on Canada have doubled. As to the best deal in the world, why is it then, if we have the best deal, that Canada has the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7 and 86,000 people are without a job?”
“Mr. Speaker, he just confirmed that he is selling out our auto workers. Let me tell him what it means when investment leaves this country. He has forced a record amount out in his seven months in power. The 700 workers at the GM plant who lost their jobs in Oshawa can tell him about investment that has left. They are sitting around the dinner table wondering how they are going to pay their bills, while GM announces $4 billion of new investment south of the border. While the Prime Minister promises yet another $1-trillion gift to President Trump, why does he not look those workers in the eye and explain why he betrayed them?”
“Mr. Speaker, we now know why the U.S. President wanted the Prime Minister in power so badly. He wanted a weak leader whose high taxes and anti-development laws are sending billions of dollars and thousands of jobs out of this country. There have been 86,000 jobs lost. Yesterday, the Prime Minister promised the President that he would increase Canadian investment in the U.S. by $1 trillion if he gets the agreement that he expects to get. In exchange for $1 trillion in job losses in Canada, will the Prime Minister at least get an end to the U.S. auto tariffs that are killing jobs for our workers in Ontario?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister would know all about driving investment out of Canada and into the United States, given that he has already managed to drive $54 billion in investments to the United States, killing 86,000 jobs in the process. These jobs represent families, who are now sitting around the table, wondering how they will pay their bills. When he came to power, he promised to get rid of U.S. tariffs. Since then, however, the tariffs on softwood lumber have doubled. I will repeat my question. After handing over a $1‑trillion gift, did the Prime Minister get an end to the softwood lumber tariffs, yes or no?”
“Mr. Speaker, we now know why President Trump wanted this Prime Minister in power so badly. He wanted a weak leader whose pro-tax and anti-development policies are sending billions of dollars and jobs to the United States. Yesterday, the Prime Minister promised President Trump $1 trillion over the next five years if we get the agreement that we think we are going to get. He is going to drive investment out of Canada, causing mills, mines and plants in Canada to close downs. Families will lose their jobs. Did the Prime Minister get an end to the tariffs on softwood lumber in exchange for this gift?”
“Mr. Speaker, all the hyperventilating in the world will not change the fact that the Prime Minister casually bragged in the Oval Office today that a half-trillion Canadian investment dollars had left for the States in the last five years and then promised that a trillion more will leave in the next five years. That will mean mines closing in Quebec and opening in Pennsylvania. It will mean mills closing in B.C. and opening in Washington state, and factories closing in Ontario and going to Michigan. Why is it that the Prime Minister sells out Canadian workers, Canadian jobs and Canadian investments when in the White House?”
“Mr. Speaker, the government has already admitted that we have a problem with Canadian pension money leaving Canada to create jobs in other countries. It even created a Brookfield-run program to bring it back. However, today the Prime Minister promised the President that Canadian government policies would drive a trillion dollars out of our economy and into the American economy over the next five years. That is twice as bad as what happened over the last half decade. That means lost jobs and lower wages for Canadians who already cannot pay their bills. Again, why did the Prime Minister sell out Canadian workers in his visit to Washington?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister casually said, “Half a trillion dollars in the last five years alone” of Canadian investment has left for the U.S. Then he said, “probably one trillion in the next five years if we get the agreement that we expect to get.” In other words, he made a massive trillion-dollar concession before the deal was even signed and without getting anything in return. This $1 trillion of exit investment means closing mines and factories in Canada and opening them in the U.S. Why did the Prime Minister sell out our workers on his visit to Washington?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised Canadians he would negotiate a victory. He promised to have a deal by July 21, 2025. There is still no deal and still no victory, and American tariffs have actually doubled. Today, the Prime Minister made his biggest concession of all. He promised to push $1 trillion of investment out of Canada into the United States of America, which will drive down Canadian wages and Canadian jobs. Why is it that when the Prime Minister goes for lunch at the White House, it is Canadian workers on the menu?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised a victory, but there is no victory. He promised a deal, but there is no deal. Now he is promising to push $1 trillion in investment out of Canada and into the United States, with nothing in return. When we talk about $1 trillion in investment, we are talking about mines closing in Quebec and reopening in Pennsylvania; we are talking about paper mills closing in British Columbia and reopening in Washington state; we are talking about factories in Ontario closing and reopening in Michigan. Why did the Prime Minister sell out Canadian workers during his visit to Washington?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised us that he would negotiate a victory with the United States and that there would be a deal by July 21 of this year. There is still no deal and no victory, and American tariffs have doubled. Today, the Prime Minister made his biggest concession of all by promising to push $1 trillion in investment out of Canada and into the United States. That means lower wages and fewer jobs for Canadian workers. Why are Canadian workers always on the menu when the Prime Minister goes for lunch at the White House?”
“Mr. Speaker, no. We are suggesting that the Prime Minister actually keep his promise and negotiate a win. The Liberals' excuses are tripping over each other. Last week, the Prime Minister said that the American tariffs on Canada are so bad that they are why we have the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7, the second-highest unemployment, $52 billion of net investment that has fled and 86,000 jobs that have been lost. Now the Liberals are saying that we have the best possible position. Which is it? Why is our economy so bad? Is it because of failed Liberal diplomacy on trade or bad economic management at home?”
“Mr. Speaker, surely after promising to negotiate a win, to have a deal by July 21, the Prime Minister is not flying all the way to Washington, D.C., just to have lunch. By the sounds of it, that is all the Liberals are going to accomplish. Since he promised this win, American tariffs on Canada have doubled. The Prime Minister has caved on countertariffs, on the digital services tax and on everything else. As a result of his weakness, 86,000 Canadians have lost their jobs. Surely, the Prime Minister will finally keep his promise and come home with a win. What will it be?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that he was going to negotiate a win with the president, that he would have a deal by July 21. Here we are in October, and tomorrow the Prime Minister is going to the White House to announce this deal. Surely he is not just going for a photo op and to make more excuses. The Prime Minister's Office is already telling the media that there will be the full elimination of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will the Prime Minister also confirm that this deal that he is announcing tomorrow, this win, will include the elimination of tariffs on autos and softwood lumber, and the elimination of buy America and all other protectionism against Canada?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised to negotiate a major victory with the Americans and have an agreement in place before July 21. Tomorrow, he will announce the agreement that has been reached with the U.S. President. The Prime Minister's Office has told the media that all tariffs on aluminum and steel will be dropped. Can the Prime Minister also confirm that the major victory he will announce tomorrow will include the elimination of tariffs on cars, lumber and all other Canadian products?”
“Mr. Speaker, yesterday I met with the head of the Peel Regional Police union, along with a group of crime victims. Among them was the Farooqi family. Aleem Farooqi rose at night to protect his kids from a home invader and was shot in the throat. He is dead. His brother came out and said the Liberal government should be ashamed of itself for keeping in place Liberal bail that has allowed for 1,600 crimes every single day. We have a motion before the House to get rid of Liberal bail and restore safety to our streets. Will the Prime Minister let it pass?”
“Mr. Speaker, criminals have been released onto our streets and chaos has been unleashed under Liberal laws. In Saint-Jérôme, a woman was killed by her partner, a man who had been arrested 30 times before and had violated his release conditions 16 times. However, because of Liberal laws, he was released. Today, we are voting on a Conservative motion to repeal these Liberal laws, put criminals in prison and restore safety for all Canadians. Will the Prime Minister allow it to pass?”
“Mr. Speaker, Liberals already brought in bail reform. That is the bail reform that allows the same offenders to be released 150 times a year. The justice minister voted to allow repeat offenders, violent sex offenders, to do their sentences in their living rooms. That is their policy. We have a bill before the House today that we could pass at all stages right now if the Prime Minister did not care about who got the credit. Will the Prime Minister put aside partisanship and grandstanding and join with us to scrap Liberal bail and save the lives of Canadians, or will he just get out of the way?”
“Mr. Speaker, the government's bail laws violate the charter rights of 1,600 people every single day. Their names are “victims”. They are the people who get hit over the head with a baseball bat, get robbed or have their children violated in what should be the safety of their own house. A three-year-old was raped by a repeat offender out on Liberal release, a constable was shot to death by someone out on Liberal release, and now a woman has been murdered by her own partner who was out on Liberal release. How many have to die before the Prime Minister gets rid of Liberal bail?”
“Mr. Speaker, if the government wants any proof that it has been in place for 10 years, the justice minister whom the Prime Minister named is the guy who ruined our immigration system, and then he went on to ruin our housing system. Now, six months after the Prime Minister looked Canadians in the eye and promised to scrap Liberal bail, that bail is still in place, and every day, violent repeat offenders are released on our streets, massacring our people. Will the Prime Minister stop making excuses? The Liberals have had 10 years; he has had six months. Canadians cannot afford to wait anymore. When will he scrap Liberal bail?”
“Mr. Speaker, we see the Prime Minister rant and rave and point his finger at police, after they have been crying out for the government to scrap Liberal bail for years. We have Constable Greg Pierzchala, who was killed by a man released, yet again, on bail. We have a woman killed by her husband after he was arrested and released 30 times because of Liberal laws. We have 1,600 crimes every single day in this country because of the Liberal laws. Will the Prime Minister stop screaming, hollering and jabbing his finger, and scrap Liberal bail?”
“Mr. Speaker, crime victims do not want the Prime Minister 's sympathy. They want to know why he has broken his promise. They want to know why Liberal bail remains in place, allowing for the same repeat offenders to offend again and again. The body of a woman was found in the last few days in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec. She was killed by her partner, who had been arrested 30 times before but released on Liberal bail. Will the Prime Minister finally scrap Liberal bail or, better yet, get out of the way so we can do the job ourselves?”
“Mr. Speaker, the body of a woman who was killed by her partner has been found in Saint-Jérôme. This woman was killed by a man who had been arrested 30 times before and released under Liberal laws. That is not all. A six-year-old child was found with a crack pipe in his mouth near Maison Benoît Labre, one of the federal government's so-called safe consumption sites. Does the Prime Minister acknowledge that Liberal laws are threatening our children, our women and our citizens?”
“No, Mr. Speaker, we support “three strikes and you're out”. Criminals who commit three violent offences should go to jail. We should lock them up and throw away the key. The member for Winnipeg North just revealed how radical and extreme he and his party have become. Here he says it is extreme to lock up criminals who have committed seven or eight offences. I will tell members what is extreme. It is when someone gets released for the 16th time, after 30 arrests, and then goes and kills his ex-spouse. These are the stories that are happening on our streets every single day. The extreme bloodshed and violence that Liberals have unleashed is what is radical. That is what we need to put an end to. Will they get out of the way so we can scrap Liberal bail?”
“Not only were they warned beforehand by police, but they have seen it through the bloodshed on our streets. How many more people will have to die before the government will get out of the way, scrap Liberal bail and protect our people?”
“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Windsor West not only for his service here in the House but for his courageous service as a police officer, protecting Windsorites and all Canadians. He put his life on the line every single day, like so many police officers who leave in the morning and kiss their kids goodbye, knowing it might be the last time they see them. For Greg Pierzchala, it was the last time he saw his family, as he was gunned down by someone the Liberals had released on bail. Liberal bail took his life. What is the price that people are paying? They are paying with their blood and with their lives. Every day another tragedy unfolds on our streets. Every day, after all these years, the Liberals have known their laws are causing this chaos.”
“We need to reverse the Liberal criminal justice reforms, scrap Liberal bail, lock up the criminals, throw away the key and restore safety for Canadians.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberals brought in comprehensive reform over the last 10 years. Let us talk about their reforms. Their reforms require judges to release offenders at the earliest opportunity under the least onerous conditions. That was the reform, and that is why we have chaos in our streets. They brought in another reform: house arrest for sex offenders, extortionists, gun criminals and other serious offenders. That is why so many recent convicts are able to reoffend with ease. They brought in another reform, which is to waste billions of dollars chasing down law-abiding people while turning gun criminals and gangsters out on our streets for free. We know what the Liberal reform is. It is to unleash crime and chaos in our communities.”
“The small-time offenders or those looking to get involved in a life of crime said, “Hell, no. The penalty is too serious. I'm going to get a job and follow the law.” Deterrence works. The facts are in. Liberal bail has brought hell to our streets. The only one keeping that hell in place is the Prime Minister . He and his government need to get out of the way so Conservatives can scrap Liberal bail, lock up the criminals and throw away the key. Let us do this not out of vengeance or spite, but out of love for law-abiding people so that our children can once again play safely in our streets, so that people can go to bed at night in peace and tranquillity, so that when they wake up in the morning, their car is still there, and so that we have a safe country where law-abiding people can live good, secure, happy, worry-free lives.”
“We did this under the previous Conservative government. One thing happened that was unsurprising and one that was maybe counterintuitive. The first thing, unsurprisingly, is that crime went down by 25%. It plummeted. It was the biggest drop in crime in modern Canadian history. It worked. The second part was a bit counterintuitive. What else went down? It was incarcerations. After Liberals warned that we would have to build new jails to accommodate all of the prisoners, fewer people, in fact, ended up in jail. Why? It is because the same offenders who were coming in and going out just stayed behind bars. We had already reserved them a room. It was like the Hotel California, where they checked out but never really left. We kept them in the cell and never let them out. We locked them up and threw away the key. Something else happened.”
“It would be great if they did nothing, because nothing would be a massive improvement over what they have been doing, which is doing violence to our Criminal Code. Our Criminal Code has allowed criminals to do violence to our people. The answer is actually very simple. Pseudo-intellectuals in Liberal circles love to say the problem is much more complicated. It is not a complicated problem. The statistics tell us the extent of it. We have a very small number of criminals doing a phenomenal amount of crime. The same 40 offenders in Vancouver got arrested 6,000 times. That is 150 arrests per offender per year, and those were just the occasions they were caught. Almost all of the crime is done by a tiny group of rampant reoffenders. If we keep them in jail, they cannot reoffend. It is very simple.”
“The House will hear more from the member for Niagara South , with whom I am splitting my time on this matter. I will note that members of the government do not need to do a thing. They just need to get out of the way. They have already broken the bail system. They brought in the chaos we are now experiencing. We are not asking them to put on a cape and come to the rescue. We are asking them to simply get out of the way. If they do one thing, it should be to sit on their hands and let the House of Commons pass this motion to quickly push through the jail not bail act. We can lock up the criminals who have been terrorizing our streets. That is all we need them to do. In fact, some people say they are doing nothing.”
“(1245) Compound that problem with the Minister of Public Safety , who should resign for having gone ahead with a plan to confiscate property from law-abiding firearms owners. It was a plan that he was caught on tape saying would not work. This is who we have as the keystone cops in charge of reversing the Liberal crime wave of the last decade. Some people say we need bail reform. We have bail reform. It is called Bill C-75 . What we need is to undo Liberal bail reform; hence today, we are calling for the government to scrap Liberal bail and replace it with jail, not bail. Today, we put forward a motion that would allow Parliament to adopt Bill C-242 , the jail not bail act. It was put forward by the brilliant member of Parliament for Oxford , Ontario. This proposal is backed by police, crime victims and everybody who wants to stop crime.”
“We all know what needs to happen. The police have basically written the legislative repeal that is necessary for us to fix the Liberal mess, yet there is no bill. There is nothing. There is zero, zip, zilch. Maybe it is because the Prime Minister took the unprecedentedly reckless act of appointing Justin Trudeau's most incompetent minister to the job. The justice minister was the immigration minister who literally destroyed the best system in the world, increasing the numbers by 300% over the previous norm, allowing criminals to come into our country unvetted and swamping our housing, jobs and health care with too many people too fast. He then went on to the housing portfolio, where he created the worst housing crisis in the OECD, and now he is in charge of the Criminal Code.”
“I have had police officers tell me they have arrested the same offender three times in the same day. One police officer in the Toronto area told me that in most arrests, the criminals happily confess to the crime in the back seat of the car because they do not care about being convicted anymore. They know that Liberal laws will turn them loose, regardless of the outcome of the trial. Liberals pulled a bait and switch in order to get elected. In the last election, they knew Canadians were fed up with Liberal bail, so they said, “Give us a fourth chance and we will reverse course.” What happened? It has now been six months since the Prime Minister was elected on the promise that he would reverse Liberal bail. Where are we? There has not been a single Liberal bill to reverse the bail system they set up. We are six months in.”
“While the justice minister condescendingly dismissed these crimes, saying we are not in the Wild West, the facts would beg to differ. Under the Liberal government, since it has taken office, violent crime is up 55%, extortion is up 330%, homicides are up 29% and sexual assaults are up 76%. There is a cause and there is an effect. We know the source of this crime. It is Liberal bail, as passed into law by Liberal Bill C-75 . It requires judges to release the accused at the “earliest reasonable opportunity” on the “least onerous” restrictions. Those are the words embedded in the law. As a result, the same offenders can commit literally hundreds of offences and be released, often within hours of their latest arrest. Police say they have often not even finished the paperwork in the arrest and the offender is back out on the street.”
“It is a three-year-old girl who was mercilessly raped by a chronic repeat offender, a scumbag who had already been convicted of raping a 12-year-old boy yet, under Liberal laws, was out on the street. [ Translation ] That was the case for a woman killed in Saint-Jérôme by her former partner, a man who had already been arrested 30 times and released 16 times before killing his partner. [ English ] It is the case of a beautiful young mother, Bailey McCourt, murdered by her ex, who was out on bail and had been released only three hours earlier. He was only four kilometres away from the courthouse that granted him that Liberal bail. These are not just sensationalist stories, as Liberals like to dismiss them; these are facts.”