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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“Mr. Speaker, today I rise to express my outrage and disgust as a father. Fourteen-year-old Esti Biran has been missing for over two weeks, since the autistic girl was last seen with no shoes on. Reportedly, on Friday, an anti-Semite began tearing down the missing person posters because she is Jewish. What kind of sicko would do that? This is a child. It compounds the bullets that have been flying into children's schools, the Molotov cocktails hitting synagogues and the 6,800 anti-Semitic instances, by far a record since the counts began over 40 years ago. We obviously have to take action to protect our Jewish community from this growing scourge of violence and hatred. It all starts with condemning it and stating that we will not put up with it.”
“Mr. Speaker, the hon. member should do his research. I have never supported any form of corporate welfare for any industry. I will also let him know that the oil and gas sector is in no need of corporate welfare. It could be very profitable if we could get the government out of the way. Oil companies can pay more and contribute more to our economy, but we would have to get the Liberal government out of the way. Now let us talk about taxes. The Bloc Québécois believes that the only way to protect culture is to increase consumer taxes. Conservatives believe exactly the opposite. We believe that money should stay in consumers' pockets so they can decide what cultural content and programs they want to watch.”
“Mr. Speaker, never before in the history of Parliament has someone spoken so much and known so little. He does not even realize that it is impossible for any government agency to raise taxes without the approval of Parliament. Parliament exists today precisely because the Englishmen who created the tradition made it impossible for the Crown to tax what the people had not approved. This is an 800-year-old rule of Parliament. The government has given the legal power to the CRTC to impose a streaming tax and has the legal power to overturn that tax any time it wants. It needs to stop running away from its own policy decisions. The member says he is going to wrap himself in the Canadian flag. Give me a break. We do not defend sovereignty by raising taxes on Canadian consumers. We fight for Canadians by lowering their taxes.”
“We want to cut taxes, obviously, on work, investment, energy and homebuilding, but we also want to fight this latest Liberal tax hike to give Canadians a break. Let them choose freely what they like to watch when they are at home recreating with their families. Let us get rid of the Netflix tax. Let us make this a country that is based on production and not borrowing, on paycheques and not debt, and on affordability and not exorbitant government inflation. We want to give Canadians back control of their lives with a promising future filled with opportunity. Let us get it done.”
“For Canadians already paying high Liberal inflation on the goods they buy, high Liberal taxes on their paycheques, high Liberal taxes on their gas to get to and from work, and then higher Liberal taxes on the beer they drink to take the edge off when they get home, when they sit down and turn on their favourite program on Netflix, Crave or Disney+, they will again pay higher Liberal taxes to pay for it. (1355) [ Translation ] The Liberals tax labour, energy, investment, beer, and now, cultural products. We Conservatives want to cut all taxes to make life more affordable for everyone. [ English ] Today, we rise, as Conservatives, consistent with our overall approach of having a smaller government with bigger citizens, an affordable government for an affordable life.”
“It is because the Liberal Prime Minister has carried on the same policies that he advised Justin Trudeau. Every single antidevelopment law Trudeau brought in remains in place today. The higher taxes on energy, investment and income remain in place. In fact, there are 500 economic projects now awaiting approval by the federal government, and the Prime Minister just announced that he is going to increase the industrial carbon tax sixfold on steel, aluminum, concrete, fertilizer and more. Government greed is again on display with the Liberal-appointed CRTC, using powers under the Liberal Online Streaming Act to triple the Netflix tax to 15%.”
“The answer, of course, is that he does not want his personal net worth to depend on the same weak economy, high taxes and red tape he imposes on the rest of our country. Weirdly, today in his speech, he even encouraged American investors to seek more of our pension fund money. Why on earth would we want the Prime Minister to go to the United States and encourage American investors to pillage our pension funds for investment we desperately need at home? According to Statistics Canada, a majority of Canadian pension fund money is now invested outside of Canada. Another question is: Why, despite the illusions, announcements, grand speeches in fancy foreign settings does investment continue to flee our country and why does it find more attractive welcome around the world?”
“According to Statistics Canada, more than half of the total foreign direct investment inflows into Canada were simple paper transactions, mergers and acquisitions. Meanwhile, in the first four quarters of the Prime Minister 's time in office, $109 billion of Canadian investment fled and more than $20 billion more left Canada than came back. That is Canadian dollars building mines, pipelines, businesses and technology abroad, paying foreign workers' salaries. If the Prime Minister really believes that he had made Canada such an attractive place to invest, then he should look in the mirror and ask why he has invested 90% of his personal assets outside of Canada, most of it in the United States.”
“The Prime Minister likes to brag about foreign direct investment, claiming that we have taken the most in the world, but Statistics Canada revealed what that was. It was foreign takeovers. These are paper transactions and not investment in new machines or hiring new workers. They are foreign corporations taking control over Canadian companies that are now trading cheap because of our weak dollar and our undervalued business environment. This is not to expand business, but simply to take control out of Canadian hands and put it mostly in American hands. I guess this is what the Prime Minister meant when he said that the Americans wanted to break us to own us. He is ensuring, through his policies, that is happening more and more.”
“is a strength or a weakness. He has argued passionately for both positions in the last three months alone. Beyond the illusions, contradictions and the repetitive MBA-isms he states in these buzzword-laden speeches, he is ultimately on exactly the same track. All that matters is the results, not the illusions. (1350) Let me go on with the present tense about investment in Canada, according to the RBC report, which says, “Canada now ranks last among G7 nations in investment in both machinery and equipment and intellectual property.” According to Statistics Canada, from the end of the first quarter of 2025 to the last quarter of that same year, overall real business investment dropped by 0.4%, but investment in productive capital fell much more, with industrial machinery and equipment investment down a shocking 15%.”
“This Liberal Prime Minister promised that, if he were elected, he would do the opposite of everything he had written about and said, everything his party had done in the preceding decade. We know now that that too was an illusion. It has been more debt, more taxes, more slow growth, more fleeing investment and more of the same. Today, the Liberal Prime Minister was off to New York to expand his favourite export, speeches. Once again, his speech was filled with more of his seemingly sophisticated but highly contradictory buzzwords. On the one hand, he says that we are in the middle of a rupture with the United States, while on the other, he says he wants to, in his words, “make America great again”. His elbows were again flapping up and down in the rhetorical chicken dance, as he cannot seem to decide if integration with the U.S.”
“One reason we spend more than we produce is because we do not have enough investment to produce and increase the production of our economy. According to RBC, in a report released about a month ago: Over the past decade, Canada’s net outflow of investment exceeded $1 trillion, the most significant capital exodus in...Canadian history. For every dollar invested in Canada from abroad, two dollars exited. Canada accounted for nearly 10% of global outward foreign direct investment over the past decade, having exported more capital than any country on Earth save [except for] the U.S. and China. These are two economies that are nearly 10 times our size. The Liberal Prime Minister ran away from this economic record, even though he was the adviser who convinced Justin Trudeau to implement it.”
“That has only given Canadians the highest household debt in the G7, a third higher than the second-closest country. Canada's household debt is now nearing record highs, and that debt is colliding with moderately higher interest rates. This, according to Equifax this week, has led to a point where “insolvency volumes have increased to levels not seen since 2009, up 18.8% year-over-year,” the “delinquency rate climbed 32 per cent year-over-year” and “Q1 saw insolvency rates hit a 17-year high, partly due to escalating financial strain on mortgage holders.” Three million Canadian households will see their mortgages roll over into higher rates over the next two years. The Prime Minister 's inflationary deficits and taxes have forced Canadians to borrow for the essentials.”
“We have the largest number of Canadians relying on food banks, up over 100% in just seven years, and we have had the worst economic growth in the G7 for over a decade. The Liberals have given us the worst household debt and the worst food price inflation, and instead of changing course, as the Liberal Prime Minister promised in the last election, it turned out that that was all an illusion. It has been more costs, more taxes, more debt and more of the same. He is just another Liberal. How did we get to a point where Canadians cannot afford to live? The answer is governments that block production with taxes and red tape and then print money to fund the resulting shortfall. The easy money is introduced into the economy as debt. Spending more borrowed money faster means higher prices, especially when we are buying fewer produced goods.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose a new tax on Netflix imposed by the Liberals and supported by the Bloc Québécois. [ English ] I am rising today to oppose the Liberal Netflix tax increase. We, as Conservatives, want this to be a country bursting with opportunity and promise, a country where young people can again afford homes and start families, where parents can give their kids the best food and the best start to life, and where seniors can retire in peace and tranquility, knowing that they can afford to live out their days, which they worked so hard to prepare for. However, after 10 years of the Liberal government, we have witnessed the biggest decline in the standard of living of any generation since the Great Depression, the first generation of youth who could not afford homes.”
“Mr. Speaker, we have the number one economy in terms of debt for households, the number one economy in the cost of housing and the number one economy in the cost of food inflation. Those are the only metrics on which this government is leading. We are number two when it comes to unemployment, with the unemployment rate being a third higher than in the United States. Now we see the delinquencies and the missed payments leading to a potential bankruptcy crisis, while the Prime Minister sits and hides behind his back bench. Will he stand up, own up, take responsibility and announce the reversal of policies so Canadians can pay their bills?”
“Mr. Speaker, I know the Prime Minister is very fragile. He is not used to taking any difficult questions, but the reality is that Canadians cannot pay their bills. In the first year in office, he has driven up household delinquencies by 18%. He has given Canadians the worst household debt in the G7. Delinquencies have climbed by 32% year over year, and in Q1 we saw a 17-year high due to financial strains in Canadian household finances. Will the Prime Minister get off the backs of Canadians so they can pay their bills?”
“Mr. Speaker, he is bringing down Canada. It does not help the Canadians who cannot pay their bills for that minister to get up and take credit for projects that were approved 14 years ago, nor does it help when the Prime Minister of Canada refuses to even stand on his feet and defend his disastrous economic record at a time when our households are by far the most indebted anywhere in the G7 because the Liberals block projects, because they have raised taxes and because they have caused inflation and the highest housing costs in the entire group of seven nations. Will the Prime Minister reverse these inflationary policies before Canadians lose their homes?”
“Mr. Speaker, 3.1 million Canadians will renew their mortgages over the next two years into much higher rates after this Liberal government, in particular this Liberal Prime Minister , advised people to take on extra debt with the promise that rates would be low for long. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost, with rate increases that threaten more and more people with the loss of their homes. In the first three months of this year, 1.5 million Canadians missed a payment on a credit card or a mortgage. Will the Prime Minister announce that he is reversing the inflationary high-tax policies so Canadians keep their homes?”
“Mr. Speaker, Canadians are skipping lunch because they cannot afford to pay their bills, while this Prime Minister and the Brookfield class skip their tax bills. Meanwhile, here at home, here is the reality. Equifax is out this week with a new report. This is the organization that checks the credit scores of individual Canadians. It says, “insolvency volumes have increased to levels not seen since 2009”, 18 years ago. Will the Prime Minister announce that he will reverse the inflationary, debt-ridden policies so that Canadians do not go bankrupt?”
“Mr. Speaker, come on, the Prime Minister could have done better than that. If he is going to hide under his desk and get someone else to speak in his favour, he has to get something better than that. That was about as good as his economic policies. He owes Canadians answers. The reality is that we have the highest household debt of any G7 country, by far, and we have seen that in the first quarter of this year, there has been a 19% increase in year-over-year delinquencies. Canadians cannot make their minimum payments. Instead of smirking and hiding behind his back bench, will the Prime Minister stand up and announce he will reverse course so Canadians can pay their bills?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is fond of blaming the rest of the world for the terrible economy he has created here at home, but the other G7 countries face tariffs and high oil prices, and none of them have anywhere near the level of household debt here in Canada. By far, Canadian households, with $1.77 of debt for every dollar of income, are far more indebted than any other country: in fact, a third higher than the second-worst. I quote Equifax: “[The] missed payment level highlights severe financial strain in high-priced markets, with mortgage delinquencies [up] 52 per cent in Ontario and 36 per cent in [B.C.]”. If people are doing so well under his leadership, why are they missing their mortgage payments?”
“Mr. Speaker, things are great for the Brookfield class, for those who stash their cash in offshore tax havens and take government handouts, getting rich, but for the rest of Canadians, here is what Equifax says: insolvency volumes have increased to levels not seen since 2009, up 19% year over year; balance delinquency rates climbed 32% year over year; and Q1 saw insolvency volumes hit 17-year highs, partly due to escalating financial strain on mortgage holders. If things are so good and affordable, why is it that 1.5 million Canadians missed at least one essential payment in the first three months of the year?”
“Mr. Speaker, lots has changed since Harper's time. Gas prices are more than 40¢ a litre higher, even though the world oil price is actually lower. Now the Prime Minister has made up a new excuse, that there are not enough refineries under his leadership. Maybe he should get out of the way and let refineries build in Canada. We have a Prime Minister who likes to blame the rest of the world. He has given Canadian households the worst debt anywhere in the G7, with delinquencies up 18% year over year. Will the Prime Minister stop making excuses and reverse the inflationary policies before Canadians lose their homes?”
“Mr. Speaker, there was a world energy crisis, and wars in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, but at the very moment that oil hit $100 a barrel all around the world, here in Canada it was only $1.38 at the pump. Those were the Harper days in 2014. Today, with oil prices being lower on a worldwide level, gas prices are over 40¢ a litre higher. Those are not world impacts; those are Liberal impacts. Will the Prime Minister reverse his policies of high Liberal taxes and a weak Canadian dollar, so Canadians can afford to fill up at the pump?”
“Mr. Speaker, in 2014, the world was going through an energy crisis. There were wars going on in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. At the very moment that the price of a barrel of oil was $100, the price at the pump was $1.38. That was 2014, during the Stephen Harper years. Today, the price of oil is lower, but the price at the pump is 40¢ per litre higher. Those are not world impacts. Those are Liberals impacts. Will the Prime Minister reconsider his taxes and policies that are weakening the dollar, so that Canadians can afford to fill up their tanks?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is banning his lawyers from making those viable legal arguments, because guideline 14 is still on the federal government's website. He is the client and is instructing the lawyer not to make the valid legal argument that fee simple private property rights extinguish all other claims. If he makes the same arguments, he will get the same results. Millions of British Columbia homeowners wonder if they even own their home. They are tossing and turning every single night. Will the Prime Minister admit the Liberal government made a mistake, unmuzzle the lawyers, get rid of guideline 14 and put property rights first in court?”
“Mr. Speaker, litigation guideline 14 was the Liberal government instructing federal lawyers not to defend property rights and argue that they extinguished other claims in the federal Cowichan decision. The judge came forward and said, “Okay,” and agreed that aboriginal title, then, came before homeowners' property rights in British Columbia. Now seniors and families toss and turn at night, wondering if they even own their homes. Will the Prime Minister reverse course, stop muzzling federal lawyers, revoke guideline 14 and defend property rights in B.C.?”
“Liberals turning up their nose at working-class Canadians and telling them to pay more and more while the Prime Minister dodges paying his fair share is the height of Liberal hypocrisy.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister is really rich when he says he cares about making the rich pay their fair share, but stashes his cash in an offshore tax haven. He took his millions of dollars from Brookfield and put them in a Caribbean tax haven in a fake office above a bicycle shop so that he could avoid paying the same taxes he charges Canadians. It is incredible, when we think about how someone who is literally invested in what Toronto Star called the biggest tax-dodger in Canada, Brookfield, then turns around and lectures single moms about paying their taxes when they fill up at the pump. Energy is a much bigger part of the household budget for low-income people than it is for high-income people. That is why these Liberal taxes at the pump hurt the poorest people the most.”
“Mr. Speaker, my colleague is right: This Liberal Prime Minister has doubled Justin Trudeau's deficit. It is twice as high now. No one thought it possible that anyone could spend more irresponsibly than Justin Trudeau, but this Prime Minister has managed to do just that. He has been wrong about every economic problem for the past decade. I have already listed five or six different government expenditures that we can eliminate to reduce the cost of government and bring prices down by cutting taxes. Apart from during COVID‑19, this government is spending more on the economy than any government since 1996. This is the biggest, largest government since 1996. We can cut government costs to lower the cost of living for Canadians.”
“The fact that the member is as ill-advised as his leader, who was an incompetent bank governor in England and caused inflation and housing crises there, demonstrates that they still have not figured out that money printing causes inflation. They will never learn.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am aware that the price dropped, but the price at the pump that I quoted was aligned with a $100-a-barrel price at the time. Apparently, the member was not aware of the fact that gas prices do not pre-emptively drop before oil prices drop. I think they need to get another economist over there to explain the basics to this guy. Obviously, when oil prices were 100 bucks a barrel under Stephen Harper, at that very moment gas prices were $1.38. Today, oil prices are, I think, $92 WTI, which somebody can look up, and gas prices are up around $1.80. The reality is there is obviously something other than the global price that is driving the cost at the pumps. It is Liberal taxes and the weak Liberal dollar.”
“Conservatives have a motion with a very simple and obvious solution, which is to take all taxes off all gas for all of the year to save consumers 25¢ a litre, 20 bucks a fill-up, which is $1,200 by Christmas. Let us lower the cost at the pump to re-energize our economy, move the parts that make up our economy more quickly, create jobs, relieve families and unleash the power of our economy to restore the promise to our people.”
“It is amazing that the Liberal Prime Minister , who has been wrong on every single economic issue of the last decade, has now delivered us a weak monetary base in this country. By printing cash and continuing to block resources, he has given us a weak dollar, which is incredible, because that was supposed to be his incredible forte. However, if we look back, he has been wrong on every single economic issue of the last decade: wrong on the carbon tax, wrong to oppose oil and gas, wrong to oppose the pipeline to the Pacific and wrong to support money printing during inflation. He is wrong again today by continuing to impose taxes on our gas.”
“Normally, when the world has high oil prices, Canada has a strong dollar because we have so much oil to sell on the world market. However, because the share of our economy made up of our oil exports is down, the link between oil prices and Canadian dollars is reduced, which removes the protection that consumers had from global shocks 10 years ago. Now, with a weak dollar and everything priced in U.S. dollars, globally priced commodities like oil and gas become far more expensive in Canadian dollars. A weak dollar means weakened purchasing power. Almost every foodstuff has either a North American or a global price. When we have a weak Canadian dollar, the ability of Canadian consumers to buy those goods is also weakened. A weak dollar means higher prices for Canadians.”
“In the United States right now, south of the border, Americans are paying, in Canadian dollars and in litres, 17¢ a litre less than Canadians. They have the same global oil price and the same global factors like the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and yet it is 17¢ a litre cheaper south of the border. Why? Sure, there are global effects that have influenced prices lately, but the bigger and longer-term costs are the Liberal government effects. One, it continues to impose a newly renamed and rebranded carbon tax, this time seven cents a litre rising to 17¢, but a broader tax that, unlike the earlier one, does not exempt farmers, fishers or other food producers. Two, the GST rises on the cost of a litre of gas as that cost goes up because it is a percentage-based tax. Three, we have an extremely weak dollar, and this is very unusual.”
“That is what a positive solution to fulfill Canada's promise looks like: Working hard leads to a good life, an affordable life where people can provide for their children and have the means to enrich their life. (1255) [ English ] Let me just recap the global situation. There are wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, we have an oil price around $100 a barrel and the price at the pump is $1.38. I am not talking about now. I am talking about 2014. Former prime minister Stephen Harper was in power and wars were raging in the Middle East, in both Syria and Iraq. The Russians had just invaded Crimea and the global oil price was $100 a barrel, $10 higher than it is today, and yet the price of gas at the pump was 40¢ a litre cheaper than it is today. What explains the difference? Let us go further.”
“We will cut back on corporate welfare and the big cheques the Liberals hand out to large corporations that they have ties with and that have good lobbyists. We are going to cut foreign aid, because if we cannot pay the bills here in Canada, we do not have money to send overseas. We are going to cut back on waste and fraud, the fraudulent money we give to fake refugees. Just today, the Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed that the government is pouring billions of dollars into rejected refugees, not actual refugees. These are five examples of things we can eliminate to reduce the cost of living at the pump without increasing the Liberal deficit. Canadians are paying too much because we have a government that spends too much. An affordable government will give us an affordable life.”
“He is following the same policies as Justin Trudeau, the same policies he advised on five years ago, the same policies that he promoted as a member of an anti-oil banking alliance. Canadians are paying the price with a higher cost of living that just keeps going up month after month. The Conservatives are proposing concrete measures to make life more affordable. We propose eliminating all fuel taxes for the whole year, which will save Canadians 25¢ per litre, $20 per fill and $1,200 by the end of the year. We are calling on the Liberal government to scrap its taxes and leave more money in Canadians' pockets. How are we going to pay for it? We will cut red tape, which has ballooned by 7% a year. We will cut back on consultants, because the Liberals spend $20 billion in that area—twice what was spent in Stephen Harper's final years.”
“When our dollar is weak, we pay more for the goods we buy on the world market. When our dollar is weaker than the U.S. dollar, we pay more for products priced in U.S. dollars. How did we get here? First, the taxes that the government charges on gas raise the price people pay at the pump. Anti-development laws are preventing us from developing our resources, leading us to have the second-longest waiting period for mining approvals, for example. These laws are reducing the number of dollars that foreigners have to spend to be able to buy our goods. This makes our dollar weak, which in turn makes our purchasing power very weak. At the pump and at the grocery store, Canadians are paying for the Liberal government's “weak dollar” policies, which have not changed since this Prime Minister has been in power.”
“There must be other factors at play. These are not global factors. They are Liberal factors. (1250) What Liberal factors are affecting the price of gas? First of all, taxes are going up faster. There is a new carbon tax, renamed the clean fuel standard, which already adds another seven cents a litre and applies more broadly than the previous Liberal carbon tax. There are no exemptions for farmers, fishers or other food producers. Second, the GST rises every time the price of oil goes up, because it is a percentage-based tax. Lastly, we have a weak dollar. The Liberal Prime Minister holds himself up as a brilliant economist, but ever since he took office, the dollar has been extremely weak, even as the value of the main resources we have here has gone up. Our dollar is worth 72¢ to 73¢ U.S.”
“Mr. Speaker, because he is so bad with geography, he just received a demotion. [ Translation ] With the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, with the price of oil at $100 a barrel and the price at the pump at $1.38, and I am not talking about today; I am talking about 2014. During the Harper years, global oil prices were higher than they are today, and there were wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, but the price at the pump was 40¢ a litre lower than it is today. There is no doubt that the price Canadians pay at the pump is indeed influenced by global conditions. However, that does not explain the current situation, because the conditions were exactly the same in 2014. Oil prices were actually higher than they are today and the price at the pump was 40¢ a litre lower than it is today. That is about 25% less.”
“Mr. Speaker, that is exactly the problem. There will be an appeal, and we want to ensure that federal lawyers are, this time, able to make the arguments that the Liberal government banned them from making last time, which is that when somebody has fee simple home ownership property, or when a small business owns a patch of land, there is no other claim that can supersede that one. These are seniors who made down payments and worked for 30 years of their lives paying property taxes, and who toss and turn at night because they do not know if they own their homes. Will the government reverse its disastrous direction, reverse its Liberal instruction and vote for our motion to protect property?”
“Mr. Speaker, they are bragging that, back in 2017, they agreed that they would inform British Columbian homeowners that they might lose their property. British Columbians do not want to be informed that they are losing their homes. They want to be informed that their government is fighting to defend their property. The hon. minister says they will debate it in the courts. They are not debating in the courts. They have a guideline. The Prime Minister has a guideline on the government's website banning federal lawyers from arguing that private property comes before every other claim. Will the Liberals vote for our motion, reverse those instructions and defend property rights in court?”
“Mr. Speaker, there is more tax, more cost, more chaos and more of the same. The Prime Minister is just another Liberal. Take, for example, the threat to the property rights of British Columbians. The Liberal government instructed its lawyers not to defend the property rights of British Columbians in the Cowichan case. In fact, they are forbidden to this day, based on guideline 14, which is still on the government's website, from putting property rights first. That case is coming up for appeal. People who paid for their homes and paid down their mortgages are worried about losing their most treasured asset. Will they reverse themselves, vote for the Conservative motion and defend property rights in court?”
“Mr. Speaker, for 10 years of this Liberal government and this Liberal minister, Canadians have spent more on taxes than on food, clothing and shelter combined. They are taxed when they work. They are taxed to fill up their car to drive to and from work. When they get home and they want to have a beer to take the edge off all the tax, will they pay higher Liberal taxes on that too? We found out late last week that if they turn on Netflix and stream their favourite program, the Liberal government wants to triple the Netflix tax to charge them even more for that. Canadians are already taxed to death. Why will they not follow our lead and get rid of the Netflix tax so that Canadians can stream affordably?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are selling another illusion by trying to blame the war in Iran for the cost of housing. The homes are here, the land is here, the workers are here and the supplies are here. It is here at home that the costs have gone up. Let us talk about the energy crisis. There was one in 2014, during the Harper years. The global price of oil was even higher than it is today. However, the price at the pump was 50¢ per litre lower. Will the Liberals finally get rid of the Liberal taxes for the entire year so that Canadians can fill up their tanks?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to blame global factors for the price at the pump, but that is an illusion. Over 10 years ago, during the Harper years, there were two wars going on in the Middle East, as well as a war in Ukraine. The price of a barrel of oil was also $100 back then, but the price at the pump was $1.35. That is almost 50¢ less than today. The difference lies in the Liberals' taxes and the weakness of the Canadian dollar under the Liberal Prime Minister. Will the Liberals stop blaming global factors and accept that these are Liberal factors?”
“Mr. Speaker, we pass laws in this country for our people in Canada. We do not pass laws based on what some multinational bureaucracy tells us to pass. We work for Canadians in this country. We are Canadians first and Canadians always.”