Warren Steinley

Mr. Speaker, Greeting · 19 wordsit is a pleasure to join in this debate on Government Business No. 12 on the spring economic update.Greeting Claims · 50 wordsA lot has changed since the spring economic update. The most recent PBO report says the government has slowing growth, a larger than promised deficit, a weakening fiscal outlook and a 1% chance of meeting the government’s own fiscal anchor.¹ That has all happened since the last spring economic update. Procedure · 7 wordsWe are debating Government Business No. 12, ProcedurePositioning · 6 wordsand it feels like Groundhog Day.Positioning Claims · 24 wordsEvery time the Liberals bring a closure motion forward, the member for Winnipeg North gets up and says the Conservatives are blocking and filibustering.Partly on point Positioning · 138 wordsIt is an example of the far-left ideology over there. It is always someone else’s fault. There is always a reason why they did not get the job done. If Liberal legislation did not get passed, it is the Conservatives’ fault. If the Liberals cannot meet any of their economic targets, it is Donald Trump’s fault. If the Liberals cannot get trade deals done, its the fault of the global crisis. There is always something to blame for why the Liberals never follow through on their promises. If they cannot get houses built, it is the municipalities’ fault. If they cannot get more trade deals, perhaps it is the Easter bunny’s fault.Off point I do not know. The Liberals always have someone to blame, and that is the far left in a nutshell. It is never, ever their fault.PositioningOff point Procedure · 17 wordsOne thing I want to talk about when it comes to ideology is child care in Saskatchewan.Procedure Claims · 5 wordsThis is the Liberals’ flagship. Positioning · 13 wordsThis is their baby. They thought it would change the lives of parents.PositioningOff point Procedure · 13 wordsI want to talk about the latest report on child care in Saskatchewan, ProcedureClaims · 25 wordswhich says 92% of people in Saskatchewan say it is difficult to find child care.² Families are being told that child care is more affordable, Reasoning · 10 wordsbut affordability does not matter if there is no availability. Claims · 30 wordsThe report goes on to say that so many communities in my home province of Saskatchewan are being called child care deserts.³ There are simply not enough day care spaces.Off point Procedure · 2 wordsGet this.Procedure Claims · 74 wordsIt further says the people the Liberals pretend to care about and want to help are the ones who are hurt the hardest. It is often the parents who need flexibility the most. The nurses, first responders, retail workers and anyone working evenings, weekends or shift work are left without options. This is what the Conservatives talked about all along when the Liberals brought forward their child care program. We said parents need choice. Promise · 40 wordsMake it the parent’s choice. Allow private day cares to stay open. Allow parents to have the choice of where they want their children to go. Supplement public day care with private day care so that there are more spaces. Claims · 18 wordsThe Liberals promised to build 255,000 day care spaces, ⁴and they have only made 65% of that target.⁵ Positioning · 13 wordsShame on them for over-promising once again and leaving parents holding the bag.PositioningOff point Procedure · 23 wordsThere are a few other things I want to talk about that were in the spring economic update but never materialized in Saskatchewan.Procedure Positioning · 16 wordsWhen the people in Saskatchewan look at the spring economic update, what do they not see?Positioning Claims · 30 wordsThey do not see funding for the Snowbirds. It took the Liberals only 10 years to ground the Snowbirds program in Saskatchewan. The iconic Snowbirds are housed in Moose Jaw. Positioning · 9 wordsThe aerial acrobat team is the pride of Canada, PositioningClaims · 58 wordsand it took the Liberals only 10 years to ground it. They are going to over-promise and over-commit once again. They promised to have the Snowbirds flying by 2030.⁶ I do not think that is going to happen, and I do not think anyone on these benches thinks the Snowbirds are going to be flying any time soon. Positioning · 11 wordsA lack of preparation and planning by the Liberals caused that.PositioningOff point Procedure · 15 wordsLet us talk about what else is not in the spring economic update for Saskatchewan.Procedure Claims · 75 wordsThere is no money for the RCMP Heritage Centre.⁷ It is in my home riding of Regina—Lewvan. The Liberals have promised money since 2015 to help the RCMP Heritage Centre become a national museum. They promised it in the 2015 campaign, the 2019 campaign, the 2021 campaign and the 2025 campaign.⁸ It was in their platform, and they still have not followed through on the commitment to make the RCMP Heritage Centre a national museum. Positioning · 4 wordsThat is a shame, PositioningOff pointThanks · 17 wordsbecause it does wonderful work and tells the stories of our brave men and women in uniform.Thanks The ask · 19 wordsThat is something that should be done sooner rather than later. I hope they follow through on that commitment, Claims · 37 wordsbecause they promised it time and time again and they have never delivered.Off point Another thing in the spring economic update that would not help Saskatchewan is the closing of agriculture research stations in Scott and Indian Head.⁹ Positioning · 30 wordsI do not know when the Liberals became the anti-science party. I do not know why they do not want to believe in the science of agriculture across our communities.Positioning Claims · 45 wordsThe research stations are so important because there are four different types of soil in Saskatchewan.¹⁰ That is why there is one in Scott, one in Indian Head and a federal research station in Swift Current. They do different experiments on these different soil types. Reasoning · 40 wordsIf the Liberals close two of these research stations, they are going to throw away decades of research that has been done to help the soil become more fertile and to help us make sure we have better crop varieties. Claims · 69 wordsThey do not say much about the fact they have cut funding to research stations. They do not talk about the cuts they have made, and there are so many more places where the Liberals have wasted billions of dollars. Then they decide to cut the Snowbirds and the agriculture research stations, and not fund their commitments to the RCMP heritage museum that they have promised time and again.Off point Procedure · 6 wordsThe last thing I would say, ProcedureClaims · 42 wordsand this has been really quiet on the Liberal front, is that the government is talking about the potential of selling airports, which I find is a very interesting strategy coming from the Liberal side. The Regina airport is located in Regina—Lewvan. Positioning · 12 wordsI do not know what the Liberals do not like about Regina—Lewvan, PositioningThe ask · 7 wordsbut I hope they will come visit. Promise · 33 wordsWe would give them a tour so they could see a lot more of this beautiful part of the city in Regina, Saskatchewan. I invite them all to come out.Off point They could see— An hon. member: Oh, oh! Warren Steinley: Aside · 30 wordsMr. Speaker, that is a very interesting point from the Liberal across the way. I wonder, if I crossed the floor, if the Liberals would fund the RCMP Heritage Centre.AsideOff point An hon. member: Oh, oh! Warren Steinley: Claims · 48 wordsMr. Speaker, we hear them cheering that, yes, they would. They tricked one of the Conservatives by promising to fund something in their riding. That is how the member for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong got tricked into moving over to the Liberal side.¹¹ She was promised money from the housing minister. Positioning · 15 wordsI find it very interesting that the Liberals are willing to try to buy people.Positioning Anecdote · 93 wordsI will tell my friend across the way a little story. My daughter saw some of the comments with respect to floor crossing, and she asked me if I would ever cross the floor. I told her that I would not in a million years. She said, “Good. I’ll still be proud of you.” There is the saying “from the mouths of babes”. Even 11-year-olds know that we should really keep our word all the time. I think sometimes we get the most truth when we talk to young people across the country.AnecdoteOff point Claims · 54 wordsThat is what the Liberals have lost in the economic update as well: Partly on pointthe fact that young people are struggling more each and every day. The fact that the vast majority of young people in Canada do not believe they are ever going to afford a home is not good enough for our country. Promise · 8 wordsWe need to do better for young people. Claims · 87 wordsThe fact that 2.2 million people go to food banks in this country, ¹²Off pointwhich is the breadbasket of the world, is not good enough. A vast majority of those people going to food banks are children, young people and students. The fact that people are languishing on wait-lists for years in the health care system is unacceptable. The fact that we gave $1.6 billion to failed asylum claimants for health care benefits but we do not look after seniors who need hip and knee replacements is unacceptable.¹³Off point Procedure · 23 wordsOne thing I want to get to before I wrap up is the fact that when we say that Canada can be better, ProcedureClaims · 17 wordsand when we question if the Liberals are doing good enough for Canadians, they call us unpatriotic. Positioning · 9 wordsThat is unacceptable. The Liberal government is not Canada.Positioning Claims · 8 wordsEvery member of the chamber loves our country, Positioning · 19 wordsbut we think our country can do a heck of a lot better than it is doing right now.Positioning Claims · 9 wordsWe are the only G7 country in a recession, ¹⁴Positioning · 9 wordsand the blame lies at the Prime Minister’s feet.Positioning Claims · 17 wordsHe promised the world he could deal with Donald Trump. There is a video that says this. Positioning · 5 wordsThat was an absolute crock.Positioning Claims · 52 wordsThe Prime Minister has failed at every promise he has made. He promised to build at speeds not seen in generations. That is not true. He said he would deal with Donald Trump. That is not true. He said he would make sure that the budget was balanced. That is not true. Aside · 21 wordsDo members remember when Stephen Harper said that budgets are like potato chips and that one cannot not have just one?¹⁵Aside Claims · 13 wordsIt has been 11 years of straight deficit budgets that keep getting bigger, ¹⁶Positioning · 7 wordsand Canadians are left holding the bag.PositioningOff point