Question Period - Wednesday, March 11, 2026

“Mr. Speaker, there are only two types of people: those who are Irish and those who wish they were. The Prime Minister had four flip-flops on Iran, but the flip-flops at home have been even worse. The Liberal government is claiming that the Global News report that indicated that there are 700 Iranian agents here in Canada is false. However, yesterday, the Liberals admitted that 239 agents have had their visas revoked, but only one of them has been deported. That means that there are at least 238 Iranian agents here in Canada at a time when we are seeing terrorist attacks on synagogues and other places. Does the Prime Minister want to flip-flop again and tell us how many Iranian government agents are here threatening our population?”

“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister had four flip-flops on Iran in just the same number of days. This is a pattern. He has also flip-flopped on oil and gas. He wrote a book called Values, in which he said he wanted to keep 50% of our energy in the ground. He said in that book that he wanted to raise carbon taxes, and then he claimed that he had flip-flopped on that, while he has since kept in place every antidevelopment law that Trudeau passed, he has renamed the carbon tax, and he has brought in an industrial carbon tax that has driven away an $8-billion project. Will he flip-flop again and reverse these Liberal policies so that we can actually supply the world with the energy it needs in this critical time?”

“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is driving in circles. He said that he wanted to keep 50% of our oil in the ground. He supported blocking the pipeline to the Pacific. He has not approved a single oil pipeline, and his Major Projects Office has not approved a project of any kind. He has just tried to take credit for a project approved by Prime Minister Harper. Next he will be trying to claim credit for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Will the Prime Minister flip-flop again, reverse his support of an industrial carbon tax and the Liberal antidevelopment laws, and get out of the way so that we can build pipelines to the Pacific to power paycheques for our people?”

“Mr. Speaker, the world cannot put meaningless pieces of paper and meaningless MOUs in its gas tank. It needs real energy that comes out of our ground. The Prime Minister said he wants to keep it in the ground, and yet today we have the hilarious spectacle of the Liberal natural resources minister saying that Canada will do what it can to help with its stockpiles for the current energy shortage. Our stockpiles are zero. Will the Prime Minister flip-flop again and adopt my policy that we should have a strategic oil and mineral reserve so that we can supply the world in the future?”

“Mr. Speaker, sometimes the Prime Minister makes it too easy. Today we have zero oil stockpiles. We have a strategic maple syrup stockpile, which he could use to put maple syrup on the pancakes that he flip-flops on, but we do not have any oil to supply to the world in the time of this crisis. Will he reverse the antidevelopment policies that he has supported, which have come from the previous Liberal government, in order to unlock our production and power the world and the paycheques here at home?”

“Mr. Speaker, of the 400 million barrels of oil released from that strategic stockpile, how many are coming from Canada? There are exactly zero. The Prime Minister's excuse, the reason we have no stockpiles, he says, is that we are a producer of oil. This is exactly the opposite of logic. The United States is a producer of oil. They have stockpiles. We have reserves, which the Prime Minister is successfully keeping in the ground. Just last week, we saw an $8-billion project cancelled under his watch. We are importing gas from Australia. Why will he not get out of the way so that we can produce our own energy?”