Speaker of the House of Commons debates a bill that could have resulted in the Tories voting against the Liberal government's Throne Speech yesterday, but the Tories voted in favour of the Throne Speech anyway. What's the deal with that?
00:04:00.760So you can either say they had the vote on division or you can say they had no vote at all.
00:04:06.760But this is everything we're seeing right now in the House of Commons and from the Liberal government.
00:04:14.760And I'll get into their security bill in a minute and exactly what it means for you and why the Conservatives shouldn't be supporting this.
00:04:23.760The Conservatives did not vote against the government yesterday.
00:04:27.760I see people out there saying, oh, Conservatives stood up to the Liberals, those NDP, the bloc.
00:04:34.760There wasn't a single vote against this throne speech yesterday, even though the NDP claimed that they were going to vote against it.
00:04:45.760Here, let's watch the video, because as far as I can see, there's absolutely no indication that anybody in the House of Commons, any party voted against the throne speech.
00:05:01.760And this is all, once again, charade, facade, big farce.
00:05:06.760You want to see the best show in Ottawa or actually in Canada, come to the House of Commons and watch what's going on here.
00:06:01.760Today, I note that Labour, the FCM and the Chambers of Commerce have called on this government to take meaningful action to protect jobs and the industry.
00:06:12.760Prime Minister Kearney has announced before that he would allocate all of the monies from the countervagant tariffs to affected workers.
00:06:22.760And yet, to date, we have not seen any meaningful announcement from this government to protect workers who will lose their jobs or Canadian industry.
00:06:31.760The Democrats are calling on this government to take a number of swift measures.
00:06:36.760First, we want them to bring in emergency reforms to the employment insurance program.
00:06:42.760Second, we want to make the use of Canadian steel mandatory in all government infrastructure projects and the centrepiece of the One Canada economy legislation.
00:06:53.760And third, we'd like to see tax incentives to private businesses to encourage them to use Canadian-made products.
00:07:01.760The second thing I want to announce today is that the Democrats met caucus this morning and we decided that we are going to be voting no to the throne speech.
00:07:11.7601.2 million Canadians sent through Democrats to this Parliament to advocate for working families across this country.
00:07:19.760And yet, in this throne speech, we don't see those priorities reflected.
00:07:24.760Millions of Canadians don't have access to an affordable home.
00:07:28.760They don't have access to timely health care.
00:07:31.760And they don't have access to the good, family-sustaining jobs that they need.
00:07:36.760And yet, the throne speech doesn't even mention the words healthy.
00:07:41.760You won't even find those words in the throne speech.
00:11:48.760But if somebody had have said, hold it, we are opposed, then at least there would have been somebody on the record as saying they oppose it.
00:12:01.760So I want to get before I get to the government security bill, which you saw the public safety minister reference at the very beginning.
00:12:10.760Let's listen to a bit of question period yesterday, because it's bizarre.
00:12:14.760It's all I can say is it gets more bizarre every day.
00:12:36.760Trump's tariffs on Canada are wrong, unjustified, an attack on our workers and our economy.
00:12:42.760Now, while other countries have got deals to lower their tariffs, not only has the PM failed to do that, but he's got Canada's tariffs doubled on steel and aluminum.
00:12:52.760He promised he was the man with the plan.
00:14:36.760Mr. Speaker, Canadians from Shewinigan to Saskatoon and the Premiers and Prime Minister that represent them have agreed on the importance of building projects of national interest.
00:14:47.760The consensus that's required includes a consensus with Indigenous peoples, something that the members opposite do know that we will stand with Indigenous Canadians.
00:14:58.760We will build pipelines, energy infrastructure in the future of this great country.
00:15:03.760The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:15:06.760If photo ops and phony rhetoric actually got things done in this country, then Justin Trudeau would still be Prime Minister.
00:15:21.760But in all seriousness, the Liberals' half trillion in new spending without a budget will make inflation worse.
00:15:31.760The PM said that he wants to be judged by prices at the grocery store.
00:15:36.760Beef up 34%, apples up 18%, coffee up 9%.
00:15:41.760Will the Prime Minister listen to Parliament and table a budget that controls spending, lowers taxes and cuts inflation so Canadians can afford to put food on the table?
00:16:53.760I'm telling you, literally in the last year, I buy coffee beans, a particular brand of coffee beans that you can find at Freshco, sometimes Walmart, other grocery stores.
00:17:05.760I used to pay $12 for those about a year ago.
00:17:10.760I'm paying over $20 for those same coffee beans.
00:17:13.760So this is very deceptive, saying it's 9%, coffee's up 9%.
00:17:18.760Maybe the coffee at Tim Hortons is up 9%.
00:17:21.760But I tell you, the coffee you buy in the grocery store, whether it's beans or it's been crushed, it's not up 9%.
00:17:54.760This is what you out there need to know about.
00:17:59.760This is what they're trying to sell as national security.
00:18:07.760And act respecting certain measures, certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures.
00:18:30.760And I'll get to the public safety minister giving you his assurance that the drug with the F word, and I don't mean, you know what, but I mean, okay, I'll say it, fentanyl, I can say it maybe once in a broadcast, that the F drug is not going to come across the border because they're going to get tough.
00:18:52.760Yeah, they're going to get really tough about this with this strong borders act.
00:19:19.760Because do you really think we're going to have we're going to stop the flow of the F drug at the border or in Vancouver where it's coming in from China?
00:19:29.760Do you think Mark Carney is going to stop it coming in from China?
00:19:31.760Do you think he's going to stand up to China?
00:20:00.760The bill would outlaw cash transactions greater than $10,000 to prevent money laundering.
00:20:08.760Oh, banks and credit unions will still be able to take deposits in cash over $10,000, but you'll never see it again.
00:20:18.760The bill would give police and intelligence services enhanced power to access electronic information in some cases without a warrant granted by a court.
00:21:58.760Because that's how the government says it's going to stop those organized criminals, organized crime, engaging in money laundering.
00:22:08.760They'll freeze bank accounts just because they suspect you.
00:22:12.760What, of being part of organized crime?
00:22:15.760No, they suspect you of being on the wrong side, of espousing the wrong policies, of supporting the wrong political party, of having the wrong political views.
00:22:23.760Therefore, it will freeze your bank account and will open your mail and will spy on your internet communication.
00:22:58.760And once again, I'm glad Donald Trump won the election.
00:23:02.760I just wish he would maintain solidarity with the policies he won the election with.
00:23:10.760So Elon Musk goes out and he finds billions of dollars in waste, government waste.
00:23:15.760And he exposes all of this government waste in USAID, government credit cards being used, the government supporting all kinds of perverse and crazy studies and programs around the world.
00:23:29.760And so what does the government do to Elon Musk?
00:23:33.760Elon Musk, trillion dollar defense budget.
00:23:36.760And now they've got a bill before Congress.
00:23:38.760It's that's going to be multi trillions of dollars.
00:23:40.760So he says, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
00:23:43.760This massive, outrageous pork bill, congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
00:24:27.760Stop the flow of arms and money to Ukraine so we can end this war and stop the flow of money and armaments to Israel so we can stop the war in the Middle East.
00:24:37.760And don't start another one with Iran.
00:24:40.760Donald Trump said he came to the presidency as a man of peace.
00:24:44.760He could stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
00:24:51.760He won't be able to stop in 24 months if he keeps feeding the armaments industry in the United States, the military industrial establishment.
00:24:59.760He's feeding it at a rate the Democrats always did.
00:25:14.760And once again, I got to put these crazy glasses on because I can't find my other ones.
00:25:19.760True to appointed Senator Christopher Wells says he would be interested in the Carney liberals making a third attempt at censoring the Internet.
00:25:35.760You can bet your bottom dollar as sure as 10 dimes make a dollar that Mark Carney is going to reintroduce the online harms bill.
00:25:44.760He's going to continue to suppress free speech.
00:25:47.760He's going to continue to try to eradicate free speech on the Internet to control what you say and even what you think, because that's what the online harms bill was all about.
00:26:00.760It died with the last parliament before the election.
00:26:05.760Mark Carney is going to resurrect this zombie, the living dead.
00:26:10.760He's going to bring back this bill from the dead, and it's going to stalk the corridors of the House of Commons and the corridors of the Internet and stop free speech.
00:26:53.760President Trump said that Ukraine doesn't have good cards, but the world has a lot of cards against Russia.
00:27:01.760And one of those cards that we have is about to be played in the United States Senate.
00:27:06.760In America, you have more than one person at the card table.
00:27:10.760All right, we'll be getting back to the Canadian news, but I had to show you that because I'm writing a column about this.
00:27:17.760I'm absolutely outraged that Donald Trump didn't take Republican Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, aside and tell him, shut your big fat mouth.
00:27:33.760So Graham and Blumenthal, the Democratic Senator Blumenthal, both violated the Logan Act, which says politicians or private citizens cannot interfere with foreign policy and negotiate with countries that the federal government is already in negotiation with.
00:28:00.760Especially if that negotiation is contrary to what the government is negotiating.
00:28:07.760Donald Trump is supposed to be negotiating a peace settlement with Ukraine.
00:28:11.760So Lindsey Graham brings his fat ass, excuse my language, over to Ukraine and tells them, hey, you've got lots of cards.
00:30:01.760Let's not give them another red dime, red cent.
00:30:05.760They are telling us, well, did you hear what he said?
00:30:08.760This is Anthony Guterres, the Secretary General of the U.N., saying,
00:30:13.760we want to ban all platforms that don't advance the United Nations narrative because they're all spewing misinformation and disinformation because we don't agree with it.
00:30:53.760This is probably the best exchange in question period yesterday, because it actually talks about something that's really important to you and I.
00:31:06.760What are the liberals going to do about the drug issue?
00:31:08.760And do you think they're going to stop fentanyl at the border?
00:31:12.760Do you think they're going to stop fentanyl from coming in the Vancouver ports?
00:31:16.760Read what my friend and colleague Sam Cooper has done on the bureau.
00:31:20.760I invite you to go to Substack and read what he's written about China sending the F drug to Vancouver ports.
00:33:12.760And do you want your conversations, your text messages, your emails, your thoughts, your musings on X or Facebook or, for God's sake, on YouTube?
00:33:26.760Do you want that to be accessed by the federal government?
00:33:31.760That's what this bill is all about, Gary.
00:33:34.760And if the Conservatives support this bill because they think, hey, we can't oppose this because we look like we're soft on the border.
00:33:43.760Yeah, you bet that argument's going to be used.
00:33:47.760But it's like everything this government does is they wave a flag and they say, we're about Canada strong.
00:34:26.760Mark Carney is also going to be implementing a joke.
00:34:30.760Because this bill has really nothing to do with border security.
00:34:33.760It has everything to do with censorship and government control of what you read, what you see, what you do.
00:34:41.760Including the fact it's going to be the beginning of the end of cash and the beginning of a digital currency in Canada.
00:34:51.760We'll listen to the rest of Gary's little talk.
00:34:55.760We'll support it in order for us to keep fentanyl off our streets, guns off our streets, make sure that illicit fundraising is curtailed and to ensure that our communities are safer.
00:35:06.760If they want to put their talk, action behind their talk, it is time for them to act and support this bill and get this through Parliament, Mr. Speaker.
00:35:15.760Last night in North Toronto, a man was shot to death and at least five others were wounded.
00:35:23.760Three masked men opened gunfire steps away from the Yorkdale Mall.
00:35:27.760It's not clear if or how many bystanders were hit.
00:35:30.760The Liberal record on crime is no accident.
00:35:33.760Liberal bills C5 and C75 put repeat criminals back on the streets, unleashing crime and chaos on the streets of Toronto.
00:35:41.760Gun crimes more than doubled under the Liberals.
00:35:48.760When will the Liberals get serious about deadly shootings in Toronto and across Canada?
00:35:53.760The Honourable Minister of Public Safety.
00:35:57.760Mr. Speaker, I'm deeply saddened by the news coming out of the City of Toronto this morning.
00:36:02.760The gun violence is unacceptable and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.
00:36:07.760We're partnering with police services across the country to fight organized crime and disrupt firearm smuggling and trafficking operations.
00:36:14.760The Strong Borders Act introduced in this House yesterday includes provisions to crack down on illegal firearms and organized crime.
00:36:22.760I look forward to working with the member opposite towards passing this important legislation, Mr. Speaker.
00:36:27.760We will continue to work tirelessly to support police across Canada.
00:36:32.760Not a word from the Conservatives all during question period about this Strong Borders Bill and what's actually in it.
00:37:13.760When that came up for discussion a year ago, the Conservatives said nothing in protest.
00:37:19.760When it was embraced and accepted last month, when Canada automatically became a signatory of the WHO pandemic treaty, the Conservatives said nothing.
00:37:33.760They have better start opening their mouth about policies that have long-term effects on Canadians, such as the WHO pandemic treaty and the Strong Borders Bill.
00:37:44.760Because, believe me, if we live in a country where your mail can be opened, where your internet conversations can be monitored, that's not a democracy anymore.