Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Madam Speaker, it is hard to tell where to start, but I would like to start by commenting on the very first part of the member's afternoon maiden speech, where he talked about the Liberal income tax cut to the middle bracket. That was not a cut for the middle class. The median earnings for the middle class in 2016, were about $34,000.

Electoral Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I know that the member is from Quebec; usually I would speak French, but I want to be clear to the parliamentary secretary, who keeps raising the point, and I would like to hear the member on it. I am an Alberta MP. The Local Authorities Elections Act in my province, in section 11, says that any municipality can move up its election to the Saturday before a federal or a provincial election.

Electoral Participation Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to ask for a recorded division.

Electoral Participation Act  Madam Speaker, a talking point the minister often likes to use is that Alberta is going to have a municipal election in 2025. He uses the talking point repeatedly despite the fact that the Local Authorities Election Act allows any council across Alberta to move the election from the Monday to the Saturday just with a bylaw change.

National Canadian Seafood Day  Just a reminder to the member that she cannot refer to the name of the Prime Minister or any member of the House.

Carbon Pricing  Madam Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government misled Canadians by claiming they would be better off with a carbon tax scam. It turns out that the environment minister's own carbon tax data shows that it will cost families nearly $2,000 more after the higher costs on groceries, home heating and gas.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, tens of thousands of families in my riding depend on jobs in these energy companies. These are companies that were founded in Alberta. Many of them started as small businesses. Thanks to the Government of Alberta, and thanks to the quality of the workers in my riding, we have built companies and wealth worth billions of dollars.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I have sad news for the member. If he carefully reads the piece of legislation, Bill C-69, he will see that the capital gains tax is not in it. In fact, the Minister of Finance said that she would table a separate piece of legislation. It is as if the Liberals were completely unprepared to table a single piece of budgetary legislation that included all of their taxing schemes because they were either too incompetent, too foolish or did not know what they were doing, or this is just a political ploy and a political game, just as so many pundits are now attacking the Liberals over.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, we were carefully listening, the group of us here, to the member's comments on what I had said and proposed, including the fact that we have legislation that we had proposed before the House. That member voted it down. The NDP-Liberal coalition voted down a piece of legislation that would have addressed the housing crisis created by the massive spending by the Liberal-NDP government.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I am glad I caught your eye, and I am glad you also caught the fact that I had mistakenly put my phone a little bit too close to the microphones. It is now far away. I want to start by thanking the residents and constituents of my riding for again allowing me the opportunity to represent them in the House.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  moved: Motion No. 17 That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 97. Motion No. 18 That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 98. Motion No. 19 That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 99. Motion No. 20 That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 100.

Government Response to Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.

Innovation, Science and Industry  Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General's explosive report on the NDP-Liberal green slush fund shows that personal friends of the Prime Minister voted themselves millions in taxpayer cash. With 96 cases of declared conflicts by board members, they still voted to award themselves that taxpayer cash.

Innovation, Science and Industry  Mr. Speaker, that member's response does not make any sense. That organization, in 2017, got a clean bill of health from the Auditor General. Then when the government took it over, it dumped the chair within three days, a record amount of time. That new board member gave $217,000 to a company she had a direct relationship with.

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  Mr. Speaker, this bill will enable people to file complaints and report incidents that happen at the Canadian border. One of my constituents sent me an email a few months ago describing how he was mistreated. He and his wife were coming back from the United States and they felt they were treated inappropriately.