Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2024-11-04 18:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)",
        "fr": "Mme Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8670054\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it has been a month that the House has been at a complete standstill, paralyzed in the business of looking out for Canadians and of actually solving the problems that the House should be seized with. It may not be the worst news in the world. Certainly, many want to see the government take a walk after nine years; I hope Canadians can finally decide to send the government packing in a soon-to-come carbon tax election. Therefore, it may not be the worst thing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670055\" data-originallang=\"en\">After nine years of the government and its destructive policies, we have been at a standstill for a brief while. The government of the day, the Liberals and their NDP counterparts, can no longer ruin the lives of Canadians even more than they have, at least in the short term. In nine years, the government has doubled the cost of housing and rent. It has doubled a mortgage payment in this country over the course of the last nine years.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670056\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have inflation and interest rates burning out of control because of the government's irresponsible spending. We do not have a revenue problem in this country; we have a spending problem. The Liberal government spends more than it has on things we do not want or need. Two million people are eating from a food bank in a single month. Hundreds of tent cities are popping up in Toronto and all across the country, from coast to coast to coast.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670057\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have crime, drugs, chaos and disorder in our streets. There are violent offenders turned out on bail as soon as they commit a crime. We saw this weekend, in Toronto, a scene from what seemed to be a movie. Police were chasing down criminals who stole a car, who hurt a police horse, who put citizens shopping on a weekend at risk and who ruined a business, all to find out that these culprits were out on bail because of the government's weak bail policy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670058\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today, the <a data-HoCid=\"299996\" href=\"/politicians/arif-virani/\" title=\"Arif Virani\">justice minister</a> told the House that he is not responsible for any of it, that he is not responsible for Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9745407\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-75/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-75</a>, which allows that to happen. He also cannot count; he was trying to make slogans using three words or four words. I do not know what that answer was, but the issue is that the justice minister in this country does not think he is responsible for the justice system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670059\" data-originallang=\"en\">We could be speaking about anything else in the House. However, it is because the Liberal government will not turn the documents over to the police that we are here debating this, and we will continue to do that until they hand them over.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8670054\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, cela fait un mois que la Chambre est \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat, totalement incapable de veiller aux int\u00e9r\u00eats des Canadiens et de r\u00e9soudre les probl\u00e8mes dont elle devrait \u00eatre saisie. Ce n'est peut-\u00eatre pas la pire nouvelle au monde. Certes, de nombreuses personnes souhaitent que le gouvernement tire sa r\u00e9v\u00e9rence apr\u00e8s neuf ans. J'esp\u00e8re que les Canadiens pourront enfin dire au gouvernement de faire ses valises lors de prochaines \u00e9lections sur la taxe sur le carbone. Par cons\u00e9quent, ce n'est peut-\u00eatre pas la pire chose. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670055\" data-originallang=\"en\">Apr\u00e8s neuf ans sous ce gouvernement et ses politiques destructrices, nous sommes \u00e0 un point mort depuis un certain temps. Le gouvernement actuel \u2014 les lib\u00e9raux et leurs homologues du NPD \u2014 ne peut plus ruiner davantage la vie des Canadiens, du moins \u00e0 court terme. En neuf ans, le gouvernement a doubl\u00e9 le co\u00fbt des maisons et des loyers. Il a doubl\u00e9 les versements hypoth\u00e9caires au Canada au cours des neuf derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670056\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'inflation et les taux d'int\u00e9r\u00eat sont hors de contr\u00f4le \u00e0 cause des d\u00e9penses irresponsables du gouvernement. Le probl\u00e8me dans notre pays, ce n'est pas les revenus, c'est les d\u00e9penses. Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral d\u00e9pense de l'argent qu'il n'a pas pour des choses dont les Canadiens ne veulent pas ou dont ils n'ont pas besoin. Chaque mois, deux millions de Canadiens font la file devant les banques alimentaires pour se nourrir. Des centaines de villages de tentes sont \u00e9rig\u00e9s \u00e0 Toronto et partout ailleurs au pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670057\" data-originallang=\"en\">La criminalit\u00e9, la drogue, le chaos et le d\u00e9sordre r\u00e8gnent dans nos rues. Malgr\u00e9 les crimes qu'ils commettent, les d\u00e9linquants violents sont imm\u00e9diatement lib\u00e9r\u00e9s sous caution. La fin de semaine derni\u00e8re, \u00e0 Toronto, nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moins d'une sc\u00e8ne qui semblait tir\u00e9e tout droit d'un film. En voulant fuir la police, des criminels au volant d'un v\u00e9hicule vol\u00e9 ont bless\u00e9 un cheval policier, mis en danger des citoyens qui magasinaient et d\u00e9truit un commerce. Or, ces criminels avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en libert\u00e9 sous caution en raison des politiques laxistes du gouvernement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670058\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, le <a data-HoCid=\"299996\" href=\"/politicians/arif-virani/\" title=\"Arif Virani\">ministre de la Justice</a> a dit \u00e0 la Chambre qu'il n'est responsable de rien, qu'il n'est pas responsable du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"9745407\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-75/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201175</a>, qui permet \u00e0 ces choses de se produire. En outre, il ne sait pas compter; il tentait de cr\u00e9er des slogans de trois ou quatre mots. Je ne sais pas quelle \u00e9tait la r\u00e9ponse, mais le probl\u00e8me, c'est que le ministre de la Justice du pays ne s'estime pas responsable du syst\u00e8me de justice. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8670059\" data-originallang=\"en\">La Chambre pourrait discuter de n'importe quoi d'autre, mais, parce que le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral refuse de remettre les documents \u00e0 la police, nous d\u00e9battons de cela et nous continuerons \u00e0 le faire jusqu'\u00e0 ce qu'il les remette.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/11/4/melissa-lantsman-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/melissa-lantsman/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4604/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12973496",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Orders of the Day",
        "fr": "Ordre du jour"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Privilege",
        "fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs",
        "fr": "Le renvoi au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/11/4/",
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