Kyle Seeback
Dufferin—Caledon, Ontario · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, I want to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Constable Tarun Bali, who passed away tragically in the line of duty in northern Ontario. Constable Bali was a member of the Dufferin OPP in my home riding of Dufferin—Caledon. I know the men and women who serve in the Dufferin OPP.”
“Mr. Speaker, this is the 11th time the Liberals have announced they are going to make food cheaper for Canadians. Forgive me if I do not believe a single word that these guys say.”
“Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present today. The first petition is with respect to a young man from Bolton, Ontario, Gabriel Arshad, who was critically injured on July 5, 2025 in a devastating four-vehicle collision.”
“Mr. Speaker, luxury Normandy butter cups, beef tenderloin, braised beef with wine reduction and crème brûlée were included in 95,000 dollars' worth of luxury meals on one flight, $1 million in the last 12 months. Meanwhile, a quarter of Canadians are food-insecure.”
“It is really unbelievable, Mr. Speaker. Every week, they stand in the House of Commons and brag about the fact that for the first time in Canadian history, a government has to send money to Canadians so they can buy groceries. Let us think about that for a minute. That is the country they have created in Canada.”
“Mr. Speaker, every month, there is a new report that shows how difficult life has become under the Liberal government. Last night, it was a damning report from Food Banks Canada, and this month we have a report from United Way that says 60% of Canadians now have anxiety just thinking about their finances.”
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“All the debt accumulated from every government from 1867 to 2015, the Liberals more than doubled in the last 10 years and that is debt that is going to have to be repaid by generations of young Canadians who are going to suffer through higher taxes, higher inflation, higher interest rates, all the things that come with this excess spending by the Liberal government. If they also want to talk about a generational budget, this generational budget would deliver generational job losses. We look at job losses in the auto sector and the job losses in the steel sector. We just had the announcement of 1,000 job losses yesterday in the steel sector. This is the result of specific policies and decisions made by the government.”
“Mr. Speaker, these Liberals like to try to call this a generational budget. I guess if we look at the generations of young Canadians it is going to take to pay off the massive deficit in this year's budget and the accumulated debt after 10 years of the Liberal government, it is in fact generational because it will take generations of Canadians to try to make a dent in paying it off. All of the debt that was accumulated from 1867 until 2015, these Liberals have managed to double in 10 years. Think about that for a second.”
“The question that Canadians want an answer to is this: With 2.2 million Canadians going to a food bank every single month, why is the Prime Minister 's focus enriching Brookfield and himself?”
“Madam Speaker, earlier this week, I said it is always a good day for Brookfield. Yesterday was a great day for Brookfield as the Province of Alberta was pushed into a $16.5-billion deal on carbon capture. One of the companies looking forward to a windfall will, of course, be Brookfield. Let us not forget that last week, the Prime Minister gave a $500-million contract to the European Space Agency which is housed on property 50% owned by Brookfield. Let us also not forget that three days after the Prime Minister had a meeting with President Trump, the President personally signed an agreement for $80 billion with Brookfield for nuclear energy. Just this week, the CEO of Brookfield testified at committee saying that when Brookfield does well, the Prime Minister does well because of how many shares he has in Brookfield.”
“Mr. Speaker, no matter how hard the days get for average Canadians, like the 2.2 million Canadians who go to a food bank every day, it is always a good day for Brookfield. The latest good news for Brookfield is a $500-million contract with the European Space Agency, which is housed in a property that is 50% owned by Brookfield. Why is it the priority of the government to line the pockets of the Prime Minister 's former company with a $500-million contract when there are 2.2 million Canadians lining up at food banks because they cannot afford to feed themselves and when there is a 6.9% unemployment rate?”
“Mr. Speaker, it is always a good day to be Brookfield, the Prime Minister 's former company, under the Liberal government. Its latest treat is a $500-million contract for the European Space Agency to create good-paying jobs in Europe, but it gets better, as 50% of the Harwell campus, where the European Space Agency is located, is owned by Brookfield. Let us not forget that Brookfield is Canada's number one tax-dodger. Through various shell corporations in the Caribbean, it avoided paying $6.5 billion in taxes. Meanwhile, 2.2 million Canadians line up at food banks every single month, and the unemployment rate is 6.9%. The government's answer is to make Brookfield richer. Conservatives will not stop. Every single day, we will expose this kind of corruption, and every single day, we will fight to make sure it stops.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister actually got a letter that could maybe deliver $1 billion someday. Meanwhile, the effect of tariffs on canola is $4.5 billion a year. The effect of tariffs on peas is $1 billion a year. We have a $1-trillion trade arrangement with the United States, and our steel industry, our aluminum industry, our auto sector and our softwood lumber industry are getting absolutely decimated while he flies around and brings back this tiny, paltry deal. It is like bragging about the Blue Jays beating a little league team 15-1. If the result of all the Prime Minister 's travel is only making things worse for Canadians, why not just stay home?”
“Mr. Speaker, in a mere eight months, the globe-trotting Prime Minister has circumnavigated the globe four times. It would not be so bad if he actually delivered some results for Canadians, but every time he meets with a world leader, things get worse. When he met with the Premier of China, China slapped canola tariffs on Canadian farmers. When he met with the Prime Minister of India, India slapped fees on peas. He has met with the U.S. President many times, and tariffs have only gone up. Every time the Prime Minister gets near a plane, Canadian farmers clutch their wallets in panic. If all his travel results in worse conditions for Canadians, why does he keep doing it?”
“Mr. Speaker, it is an incredibly exciting time if a person is a shareholder in Brookfield right now, let me say that, with all the slimy contracts that these guys are giving to companies affiliated with Brookfield. Meanwhile, we have 2.2 million Canadians lining up at food banks; we have a 6.9% unemployment rate. What did the government decide to do? They are investing $500 million to give jobs to Europe. How can it be a priority of the government to give jobs to Europeans when there is 6.9% unemployment in Canada and 2.2 million people using a food bank? Justify that.”
“Mr. Speaker, a Prime Minister who describes himself as a European is giving $500 million to the European Space Agency to create good jobs in Europe. It gets worse. The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, where the European Space Agency is located in the U.K., is 50% owned by Brookfield. Rather than focusing on lining the pockets of Brookfield and ripping off Canadian workers, why do they not invest in Canada?”
“Mr. Speaker, once again, how do the Liberals stand up and applaud an unemployment rate of 7% when the United States' unemployment rate is 4.2%? It is actually like we are living in some kind of dystopian universe where they do this. The facts are these. Our softwood lumber industry is being hollowed out, 2.2 million Canadians are using the food bank, the auto industry is on its knees, and the Liberals stand and applaud a 7.1% unemployment rate. They have spent more money than all governments combined in the history of Canada. How can they applaud when they have spent so much to actually accomplish so little?”
“Mr. Speaker, only a bunch of Liberals would stand up and applaud an unemployment rate of 7% when the United States' unemployment rate is 4.2%. This is the most expensive government in Canadian history. In 10 years, the Liberals doubled the debt, and now they are going to pile on another $78 billion. Meanwhile, 2.2 million Canadians are going to the food bank. The softwood lumber industry is being devastated. The auto industry is being devastated. Is there a Liberal over there who can stand up and explain how the government has spent so much money to accomplish so little?”
“Madam Speaker, the question was actually about young Canadians and what they are going to be asked to sacrifice, which of course the government did not answer. Young Canadians are going to have to figure that out in the budget. Sacrifice they have. They have sacrificed by not being able to own a home. They have sacrificed by having generationally high youth unemployment. The Liberals' message is that they passed all these things and things should be better, except they are not. There are 700,000 children now going to food banks despite their programs. Youth unemployment is the highest it has been in a generation despite their programs. Their programs are not working, and their economics is driving young people into unemployment.”
“Madam Speaker, sacrifice more: that is the message the Liberal Prime Minister just gave to young Canadians. These are the young Canadians living through generationally high youth unemployment, the young Canadians who have mostly given up hope of ever owning a home. Meanwhile, Liberal insiders get rich. Liberal-appointed executives at BDC are getting, on average, a bonus of $216,000. A young Canadian would be desperate to have that as a salary. As the budget approaches, what sacrifices are these young people being asked to make while they get Liberal insiders rich bonuses?”
“Mr. Speaker, the minister needs to hear something: Auto workers want their jobs. They do not want handouts. They do not want to hear that we are making progress. They do not want to hear these bromides about standing up for Canada. What they want is to get back in the plant and do their jobs. They want to make the great cars they make. What is the actual plan to get auto workers back in the factories and producing cars? What it looks like right now is that the Liberals are sacrificing the auto industry in a desperate and pathetic attempt to appease Donald Trump.”
“Mr. Speaker, this morning the Liberal Prime Minister had the audacity to say he is making significant progress in removing Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada. Is he kidding me? We lost 3,000 auto jobs in Brampton and 1,200 auto jobs in Ingersoll, and that is just in the last 10 days. What an absolute slap in the face to auto workers that is. The Prime Minister also recently said that Canadians have to make sacrifices. Why do the Liberals not actually confess that the sacrifice he is talking about is the entire Canadian auto industry?”
“Mr. Speaker, I do not know. We are going to have to look at that. Ultimately, we want to hear from the experts on whether or not it would make a difference. My quick review of it is, as I said in my speech, that we would not deal with all of these bogus asylum claimants through the process, but try to transfer them to the judicial system. Again, that will be far more complicated and it would not solve the problem.”
“Mr. Speaker, this is something we have been fighting about with the government for almost a decade, ever since it made terrible decisions on bail. It has continually done things to make it much easier for criminals to be out in our communities, wreaking the havoc they wreak. The government always says it is going to come up with some kind of solution or it has a new piece of legislation. The former justice minister, Arif Virani, introduced a piece of legislation on bail reform, saying it was going to solve the problem. Of course, we know it did not. Violent offenders are out on the streets again within hours, if not days, of committing violent offences. Yes, the Liberals could absolutely do something about fentanyl trafficking. Namely, they could crack down on the traffickers so that they stay in jail and cannot victimize Canadians.”
“They say they are going to fight hard, do this or that and stand up for Canada. The answer is they could not answer the question, which is also the answer here. They have not hired anyone, and God knows if they will.”
“Mr. Speaker, I share the member's outrage for the recycling of announcements. The government has gotten very good at trying to trick Canadians into saying it has created new programs and new things, but it is, in fact, just recycling the same old things over and again. The Liberals never answer a question directly in the House of Commons. The member asked a Liberal member how many police officers had been hired since April. The Liberal member rambled on about the importance of this and recycled the hiring announcement. It is the same thing that happened yesterday when I asked the government members if they had a jobs guarantee in the $15-billion contract they signed with Stellantis. Members should have seen them trying to tap dance on the head of a pin to avoid answering the question.”
“Mr. Speaker, I think most police organizations also want mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking in fentanyl. They also want to get rid of house arrest for drive-by shootings. I would encourage the member to talk to his caucus and see if they want to work on some of those things. If he was listening, I said quite clearly that we would love to see this bill studied at committee. We think there might be some things in here that are worth supporting, but, of course, we need to study them at committee.”
“member: Oh, oh! Kyle Seeback: Mr. Speaker, the member is laughing. The member who spends all day, every day doing nothing but talk about how great he thinks the government is doing is now laughing as I talk about the seriousness of a 296,000-person backlog. The system is absolutely broken after 10 years of the Liberals' management of the system. There may be some things in this legislation that we could support. We have to send it to committee. I want to commend all of my colleagues for their hard work in getting this bill broken up into parts so that some of the things we know we cannot support are going to be in one particular piece of legislation, and some of the things we think we might be able to support with a bit of study are going to be in this particular piece of legislation.”
“I think the estimate to process these 296,000 cases in the backlog is 25 years. Let that sink in. That is the backlog on asylum claims that has been created by the Liberals' absolute mismanagement of the immigration system. What we are now hearing from some experts is that the proposed changes would not fix the broken system. This problem would be transferred to the courts, because they have decided they cannot fix it. The fix is not to figure out a way to quickly process the backlog, because we know so many of these claims are bogus asylum claims. In fact, one of the things we did under Prime Minister Harper was try to eliminate bogus asylum claims from certain countries by imposing visa requirements. One of the first things the Liberals did was eliminate those visa requirements. Surprise, surprise, we are up to 296,000. An hon.”
“We know the effects of these safe consumption sites. They become a blight in a neighbourhood, and having them near schools and children is not the kind of thing we want. Again, this was a simple place for the Liberals to have made that change, and they chose not to. Let us quickly switch and talk a bit about some of the changes to immigration. I was around when Stephen Harper was prime minister and changes were made to the asylum system, and we brought asylum claims down to about 10,000. It sounds like a lot, but it is 10,000. If we look at where things are now, again, after a decade of these Liberals and their absolute and utter mismanagement of the immigration system, asylum claims are now at a whopping 296,000. Think about that. A decade ago, they were at 10,000, and now they are at 296,000.”
“We believe it needs to be done, but it is not in there. The Liberals also did not take the time to eliminate, for example, house arrest for drive-by shootings, which is still okay. They put together a massive omnibus piece of legislation, in part to deal with crime, but they left things like that out of it. It is available, so somebody engaging in a drive-by shooting is eligible for house arrest. If we go back to the statistics I talked about, gang-related homicide is up 78%. Generally speaking, the kinds of people who are engaging in drive-by shootings are people in gangs trying to cause homicides. The Liberals had so much opportunity to do better, and they failed on that. Another thing they failed to do is make it crystal clear that so-called safe consumption sites should not be allowed anywhere near schools.”
“Because this was about the corporation, it would mean that any employee of the corporation who had a reasonable suspicion could be opening mail. It is a particularly troubling standard that they were trying to put into the bill. It has been through hard work from the Conservatives, who said “absolutely not”, that those parts of the legislation remain in Bill C-2 and are not included in Bill C-12 . (1550) It is also very interesting to note what is not included in any of these pieces of legislation which is trying to deal with the issue of crime that the Liberals are belatedly waking up to. For example, there is nothing in Bill C-12 that would deal with the issues of fentanyl trafficking and sentencing for fentanyl traffickers. Something like that could have been incorporated into it to crack down on fentanyl trafficking.”
“To go back to Bill C-2 , I really want to talk about some very deeply troubling things that were included in that piece of legislation. It shows the mindset of the Liberals, who have turned around on some of these issues. One of these is how Canada Post would be able to search mail. In and of itself, it is problematic, but the statutory change the Liberals were trying to bring in said this could happen with reasonable suspicion. Bill C-2 reads, “reasonable grounds to suspect”. That is the lowest threshold in law that could be used to do this. Normally, to be able to search something, we need the much higher standard of “reasonable grounds to believe”. The Liberals were putting in the very lowest standard possible of reasonable suspicion.”
“To get to Bill C-12 , we have to talk a little about Bill C-2. I am old enough to remember when the Liberals used to say it was a terrible thing to introduce omnibus pieces of legislation, and they would never do such things, but here we are. Bill C-2 was going to amend 15 statutes and had 120 pages of technical statutory changes. As Conservatives, we said, “That is a no go.” In fact, it is due to Conservative pressure, because of a number of things that were included in Bill C-2, that we ended up here with Bill C-12 , which actually has some things that we think might do some good. I know it is a strange thing to say, but as they often say, a broken clock is right twice a day, so they may have gotten a couple of things right in Bill C-12.”
“If members do not want to take my word for it, I have a few statistics that I would like to go through so that Canadians can understand just how bad crime has gotten. in this country under the Liberal government. Total violent crime is up 49.84%. Let us round that up to 50%. There has been a 50% increase in violent crime after a decade of the Liberals running the country. Homicide is up 28%. Gang-related homicide is up 78%. Sexual assault is up 74%. Extortion is up 357%. Let that sink in for a moment. A decade ago, we had a certain amount of extortion and it is now up 357%. We know the terrible things that happen when people are trafficking in persons. That is up 83%. All of this has happened over the last decade with the Liberals running the country. They introduced a massive omnibus bill, Bill C-2 .”
“Mr. Speaker, if we are going to talk about this piece of legislation, we should put a couple of things into context. The first thing I would put into context is that this is another bill the Liberals are trying to bring forward to allegedly do something to deal with the massive surge in crime that has gone on in Canada over the last 10 years. It is a remarkable turnaround. I still recall when former minister of justice Arif Virani sat in this chamber. He would get up in question period and say we were trying to scare Canadians and were engaging in typical Conservative fear on the issue of crime when we raised the staggering increase in crime and violent crime. That was his answer. Now it seems like the Liberals have had their reckoning and realized that over the last 10 years, due to their policies, we have had a massive surge in crime.”
“Mr. Speaker, that is unbelievably cold comfort for the 3,000 auto workers and their families whose jobs vanished to Donald Trump's America after the Prime Minister 's meeting with Donald Trump. They have to think, “How am I paying my mortgage? How am I going to put food on the table?” These are the kinds of answers Liberals give. It is a very simple question. Fifteen billion dollars went to Stellantis, and in that $15 billion, if the Liberals had a clue how to negotiate, they would have included a guarantee of Canadian jobs. We do not need to wait until these contracts are released; this member should know the answer. Is there a job guarantee for Canadian auto workers, yes or no?”
“Mr. Speaker, the result of that meeting of the Prime Minister and President Trump was the export of 3,000 auto workers' jobs from Canada into Trump's America. Talk about failure. Meanwhile, this finance minister signed a $15-billion deal for jobs with Stellantis in Canada. It was supposed to include money to retool those plants. What we keep asking is simple: If there is actually a job guarantee in this contract, why do they not just tell us how many jobs will this contract guarantee for Canadian auto workers? If there is not, it is absolute negligence.”
“Mr. Speaker, giving the Liberals a lesson would imply that they could actually learn something, so we are not going to try. Here are the facts: GM just laid off 750 workers, and the Brampton Stellantis assembly plan has been on layoff for eight months waiting for retooling money. Meanwhile, Stellantis is going to invest $10 billion in the United States. Why? It is because the Prime Minister has failed to negotiate an agreement with the United States after promising elbows up. Is this also why he is promising $1 trillion of investment in the United States? Is that so Stellantis and other companies can build more factories there? Why have the Liberals abandoned auto workers in Canada?”
“Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we were treated to an incredibly embarrassing display as the Prime Minister stood here and bragged about a 10% tariff on Canadian auto. I had the privilege of meeting with Unifor auto workers earlier this week, and they told me a 10% tariff on auto will mean the end of the Canadian auto industry. Either the Prime Minister is unbelievably uninformed about what will hurt the auto industry or he actually does not care when President Trump says he wants to take the auto sector. Is that why the Prime Minister is going to send $1 trillion of investment to the United States, so they can build more auto jobs for the Americans?”
“Mr. Speaker, that is just an incredible example of 35 seconds of saying absolutely nothing. What is actually going on here is that we have got fancy banker-speak to try to say that debt is investment. Debt is debt; it does not matter how much lipstick we put on the pig, and it is Canadians who pay the price of this reckless debt spending. Canada has the second-highest unemployment in the G7, and 86,000 Canadians just lost their jobs. All the member can do is think it is time to sell jokes at Yuk Yuk's. When will the Prime Minister realize his reckless spending is actually hurting Canadians?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister 's broken promises are hurting Canadians. He promised he was going to spend less. In fact he is going to spend more, a lot more. Trudeau left a deficit of $42 billion; the current Prime Minister is going to supersize it well past $60 billion. Deficits cause inflation, but it is Canadians who end up paying the price. In fact, 86,000 Canadians have paid that price by losing their jobs. When will the Prime Minister stop his reckless spending?”
“Madam Speaker, let us have a serious conversation about gun crime. The Toronto Police Association says 90% of guns used in gun crimes are illegal guns. Are the Liberals going after those? No. They have come up with this $750-million politically motivated scam. Those are not my words, but the public safety minister's words. Do members know what else he said? He said, “Don't ask me to explain the logic” of it. If we are going to have a real conversation, why are the Liberals not going after the criminals and the 90% of illegal guns that are making our communities unsafe? His job is to make our communities safe. He is failing, and he has admitted it is a scam. Why—”
“Madam Speaker, in public, the public safety minister supports the Liberal gun buyback program, but in private, he calls it a politically motivated scam that will not work. Talking out of both sides of one's mouth should be a fireable offence, but it is worse than that. His job is to keep Canadians safe. Gun crime is up 130%, so he has failed, and he is pushing forward with a program that he says would not actually work. What will it take for the Prime Minister to fire this minister?”
“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his wonderful reading of PMO speech number three. The issue we have in Canada right now is the cost of food. The member's leader said he was going to fix that cost. The Liberals talk about all these programs they are bringing in, but a decade ago, people did not need all these programs because they could go to the grocery store and afford food. In fact, many people on social media have reordered the same basket items they did at Walmart or somewhere else. They compared the prices from 10 years to the prices now, and the change is astounding. Does the member think the Prime Minister should be held accountable for his words? He said he was going to bring down the price of groceries and he has failed miserably.”
“Mr. Speaker, except that, in a private conversation, the minister said the exact opposite. He called the Liberal gun buyback a politically motivated scam. Imagine what could be done with this $750 million. How many police officers could be hired? How many border officers could be hired? How many scanners could be purchased to find the illegal guns coming in from the United States? The minister is doing nothing. He is pushing forward with his politically motivated scam. Canadians deserve better. They deserve to be safe. This is staggering incompetence. Why will the Prime Minister not fire him?”
“Mr. Speaker, what should we call a person who says one thing in public and then does the exact opposite thing in private? That is exactly what the public safety minister did. He called the Liberal $750-million gun buyback program a politically motivated scam. The minister's number one job is to keep Canadians safe. Violent crime and gun crime are up, and 90% of gun crimes, police say, are committed with illegal guns, yet he calls his main plan a scam. This is stunning incompetence. Why has he not been fired?”
“Mr. Speaker, I confess that the member lives in an alternate reality, because this was how they set up the parent and grandparent program: An unlimited number of people could apply, then they let in 14,000 people. All of those other people went on a waiting list. The next year, they would open it up. An unlimited number of people could apply, and they would let 14,000 in. All the rest went on a waiting list, and so on and so on. That is how they managed the parent and grandparent category. It was an absolute mess. We had to clean it up. Guess what, a Conservative government is going to clean up a lot of messes, including—”
“Mr. Speaker, when former prime minister Harper took over, there was a massive backlog in the parent and grandparent category that they took over from the Liberals, around 150,000 people. We were left with the mess that they left. It was the same thing in every single category. What we actually did was put a temporary pause on the parent and grandparent application process, and then we cleared the entire backlog. He is standing here and trying to say that everything was rosy under a Liberal government and then, somehow, things changed. I know I am not allowed to use certain words in this place but what he is saying is worse than categorically false.”
“Mr. Speaker, I do not know whether his statements about the Conservative record on immigration are due to ignorance or whether they are malicious, but either way, they are completely erroneous and false—”
“Mr. Speaker, my colleague makes a perfect point on this. The people who came to Canada because they wanted a better life played by the rules. They worked hard. They made fantastic lives and contributions to this country. They are going to look at this as an affront to the hard work that they did to come to Canada and become successful and proud Canadian citizens. They would be outraged about someone who has spent almost no time in the country getting Canadian citizenship. The days are not even consecutive. A person could have spent something like 10 days in Canada over 30 years. Basically, if they vacationed here for 10 days over 30 years, they are going to get Canadian citizenship. It is outrageous. We are against it and we will fight it.”
“They could have fixed this problem very simply, but they did not. They chose a weak test; with 1,095 days at any point in someone's life, they get Canadian citizenship and they can then pass it on to their children. This is a terrible piece of legislation. Conservatives fought it in the last Parliament. We will fight it in this Parliament, and we will seek to make amendments to bring some common sense to this terrible piece of legislation.”
“Many of the people in that town hall are immigrants; they came to this country because they wanted the opportunity Canada provides. They would have been outraged by the decision to do this. What has been the consequence of the mess the Liberals have made of immigration in Canada? We can look at the jobs market. The big topic of discussion at my town hall was that my constituents' sons and daughters cannot get jobs. This is one of the reasons we have said we are eliminating the temporary foreign worker program: Far too many people have come into this country and taken jobs away from Canadians. The TFW program is a part of that problem. The Liberal mess on immigration is going to take a very long time to fix. When we look at this, we see another absolute mess happening that the Liberals did not need to make.”
“They are going to mandate that no one gets to drive a gas-powered vehicle, that all vehicles have to be zero-emission vehicles, but they do not know what the cost of the charging network is going to be. That is how Liberals have run this country for the last 10 years, which is why we are in the mess we are in on a whole host of levels. I just had a town hall in the town of Bolton a couple of weeks ago, and immigration was absolutely on the agenda. When I talk about the statistics of the decline in support for immigration, I can say that I felt it in person at that meeting. People are saying the numbers are too high. I did not get the opportunity to do so, but if I had talked about this particular piece of legislation, I know what the good people of Dufferin—Caledon would have said. They would have said it is ridiculous.”
“This is important because there is value in Canadian citizenship, and they are going to extend this to all kinds of people who have very little connection to Canada. We actually do not have the numbers on how far that will extend. We have maybe some estimates, but even the government does not know. This, of course, does not surprise me, because the Liberals come up with things on the back of a napkin and never know what the consequence is going to be. It was much like this when I was the shadow minister for the environment, and I asked the deputy minister at the time what the actual build-out of the cost of the charging network all across Canada would be when we get to the 100% zero-emission vehicle mandate. They looked at me and said they have not calculated that to the end point.”
“We just talked about how the lack of security checks let an alleged ISIS terrorist into Canada, someone who was on a video in 2015 dismembering someone, but they do not think security checks would be an important part of extending citizenship to people who have no real connection to Canada. Maybe they spent 1,095 days in Canada at some point over their lifetime, maybe not, because we do not know how they are going to prove it, and they do not have to have a security check. The Liberals are going to try to say that this is all very normal, that they are solving a problem. It is not normal. This approach is not normal in the developed world. The United States, Britain, France and Italy all cap citizenship to the first generation born abroad.”