Today's Question Period

“Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Auditor General condemned the current Liberal Minister of Justice, the current Liberal Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and the current Liberal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship for causing chaos on the international student file. The fact is that they allowed 150,000 suspected cases of fraud to go uninvestigated. The Prime Minister gave them promotions so that they could continue to wreak havoc in the system. Will he fire them or will he continue with the same Liberal incompetence?”

“Mr. Speaker, the new Liberals are the same as the old Liberals. The numbers the Prime Minister just gave can be compared to the even more miserable numbers of his justice minister. In fact, compared to the Harper government, which had the last sane policy on immigration, asylum claims are now up 2880%, temporary foreign workers are up 178% and international students are up 39%. Yesterday, the Auditor General condemned the current Liberal justice minister, the Liberal heritage minister and Liberal immigration minister for allowing 150,000 cases of fraud to go uninvestigated. Will the Prime Minister fire them, or will he just continue with the same Liberal incompetence?”

“Mr. Speaker, it is all illusion. It is the same old Liberals, the same old failures. Look at the economy. The Prime Minister likes to blame world affairs for his failing economy. The G7 countries have the same world economy, yet he has delivered the second-highest unemployment in the G7, the worst household debt in the G7, the worst housing costs in the G7 and the only shrinking economy in the G7. We have had 100,000 lost jobs in the last two months alone. Why is it that, after the Prime Minister promised that he would be the first, he is the worst in the G7?”

“Mr. Speaker, I guess those people who stash their cash in tax havens have never had it so good and so affordable. Tell that to the single mother who is walking down the grocery aisle. Let us talk about jobs. The Prime Minister compares us to the United States. When we do an apples-to-apples comparison of unemployment, it is 1.3% higher in Canada than it is in the U.S. In fact, Canada has the second-highest unemployment in the G7, the worst grocery inflation in the G7, the most unaffordable housing in the G7 and the worst household debt in the G7. He promised we would be first, so why is he the worst?”

“Mr. Speaker, strategies and imaginary promises will not pay the bills or fill the tank. We all know that global oil prices have gone up, but that does not explain why in Canadian dollars and in litres, Americans pay $1.46 a litre at the pump while Canadians are paying $1.70. That is 26¢ higher per litre at the pump because of the Prime Minister's anti-energy policies and his newly renamed carbon tax, the clean fuel standard. Will he get rid of these policies and get rid of that tax so Canadians can have some relief at the pumps?”

“It is all an illusion, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister not only supported the carbon tax that he advised Justin Trudeau to put in, but thought it should be higher and broader. When he got into power, he did not get rid of it; he renamed it. He called it the Clean Fuel Standard, 7¢ a litre this year rising to 17¢ on top of an industrial carbon tax that is driving up the costs of all the industrial production of our energy. That is one of the reasons that, under the Liberal Prime Minister, Canadians pay the equivalent of 26¢ a litre more than the Americans pay. Will he stop ripping off Canadians at the pump and get rid of these Liberal taxes so Canadians can get moving?”