This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Madam Speaker, Greeting · 26 wordsit is always a great honour to rise in this place on behalf of the great people of Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna. It is my honour.Greeting Thanks · 17 wordsI would also like to take a brief moment to welcome our newest members in this place.Thanks Claims · 25 wordsI am certain I am not alone when I say that a member’s first time sitting in the chamber is one they will never forget. Anecdote · 95 wordsMind you, things work a bit differently these days from when I first came as a new member of Parliament. Much like our new members of Parliament, I too first joined this place as a rookie MP on the government side of the House with a majority, only in those days, Off pointif a majority government introduced an omnibus bill the same way the Liberal government has with Bill C-39, the crowds went wild, 1and I do not mean in a happy way either. Whether “anti-democratic”, “dictator” or “bully”, the accusations and media headlines were rampant.Anecdote Claims · 24 wordsHeck, omnibus bills were considered so bad that in one election, the Liberals even promised that, if elected, they would never, ever use them, 2Positioning · 5 wordsand yet here we are.Positioning Anecdote · 12 wordsTo be fair, I always looked at omnibus bills a little differently.Anecdote Claims · 100 wordsI went on the record at the time to suggest that when facing challenging times, it is better to be accused of trying to do too much instead of too little, and indeed, this bill proposes to do some interesting, but also some very different, things. Many have suggested the bill could have and should have been split up. We are still early in this debate, and I am sure that topic will be coming up. The Liberals will argue, and I quote them on this, “Canada’s new government has a mandate to build big, build bold, 3and build now.” Aside · 7 wordsWait a moment. I got it wrong.Aside Claims · 49 wordsThat is what the Liberals said about the last mega bill that would build Canada strong. Members might remember it as Bill C-5. For Bill C-39, the Liberals’ new talking point is, “This legislation will give our country the tools we need to build more, better and more efficiently.”4 Aside · 15 wordsMembers will, please, forgive me for getting those two quotes just a little mixed up.Aside Positioning · 17 wordsThey sound so similar that it is easy to understand how the Liberals even get mixed up.Positioning Claims · 35 wordsNow, I credit the PMO’s communication shop for creatively saying basically the same thing over and over again, only slightly differently so that, hopefully, people focus more on the words and less on the results. Procedure · 2 wordsOf course, ProcedureClaims · 77 wordsas an opposition member of Parliament, I would be remiss if I did not point out that over this past year, not a single shovel went into the ground for a brand new project that did not exist more than a year ago.5 There were literally no new projects. It has gotten so desperate that Liberals now try to claim pre-existing projects as proof of progress. “Building at speeds not seen in a generation” was the promise, Positioning · 15 wordsbut in reality, it is about talking about building at speeds not seen in generations, PositioningClaims · 8 wordsbut the actual building part, not so much, Reasoning · 14 wordsand the building part, let us all agree, is really the most important part. Claims · 26 wordsHere we are today, once again, with a new bill that would “give our country the tools we need to build more, better and more efficiently.” Positioning · 19 wordsApparently, the reason nothing has been done over the past year is that we lacked the tools we need.Positioning Claims · 44 wordsThis is the country that built the Canadian Pacific Railway, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Trans-Canada Highway and so much more. It is amazing how over the past 159 years, we have built the greatest country on earth, with all kinds of amazing achievements, 6Positioning · 29 wordsbut suddenly we no longer have the tools we need to build any more. This begs the question, what happened to the tools? Well, in 2015, the Liberals happened.Positioning Claims · 65 wordsIt is interesting that there is a segment in the backgrounder for Bill C-39 that reads: the [Canadian Energy Regulator] will conduct the assessment under the Canada Energy Regulator Act, rather than through an integrated review panel with the Impact Assessment Agency. Since the introduction of the integrated review panel process in 2019, no project has met the threshold to be assessed by a panel. Procedure · 10 wordsLet me just read that last part one more time: ProcedureClaims · 23 words“Since the introduction of the integrated review panel process in 2019, no project has met the threshold to be assessed by a panel.”7 Procedure · 12 wordsI hope everyone here heard that. Let us go over that again.Procedure Claims · 25 wordsSince the Liberals brought in the Impact Assessment Agency review process in 2019, “no project has met the threshold to be assessed by a panel.” Positioning · 3 wordsHow many projects?Positioning Claims · 4 wordsNone, zero, zip, nada. Positioning · 10 wordsThat is an incredible feat when we think about it.Positioning Claims · 20 wordsIt has been seven long years and not a single project has ever met the threshold imposed by the Liberals. Procedure · 5 wordsHere is the best part: ProcedureClaims · 15 wordsalong come the Liberals proposing to remove the very same red tape they themselves created. Positioning · 14 wordsThink of all the lost opportunities over those seven years. It was so damaging.Positioning Claims · 64 wordsI know that on the government side, there is a particular minister fond of saying, “We will take no lessons from the Conservatives”, 8unless, of course, it is axing the carbon tax, repealing the electric vehicle sales mandate, rolling back the planned capital gains tax increases or temporarily removing part of the federal fuel excise tax.9 These are all things that Conservatives called for.Off point Procedure · 5 wordsHowever, let us be fair.Procedure Claims · 49 wordsWe did not ask for some of the changes to the Canada Labour Code that are proposed in this bill. In fact, we are having a hard time even understanding where the Liberals came up with some of these proposals. They said they spent the summer consulting different groups, The question · 5 wordsbut which groups and where? Positioning · 8 wordsIt all seems a bit suspicious to us.Positioning Claims · 40 wordsWe all know that the bill also includes a new power that would allow the Minister of Labour to intervene to end a work stoppage, 10Unearned certaintybut only if the work stoppage is deemed to be contrary to the national interest. Positioning · 40 wordsThat is where this bill becomes extremely concerning for Canadians. The modern Liberal government has gotten into a very bad habit of doing things that serve the interests of Liberal Party friends and insiders, rather than the interests of Canadians.PositioningPartly on point Procedure · 11 wordsIf my colleagues doubt that, I will give them an example.Procedure Claims · 35 wordsNot so many years ago, the Liberals gave the green light to and approved the Rogers takeover of Shaw.11 Critics warned the Liberals not to do that and warned what would happen if they did, Positioning · 7 wordsbut the Liberals of course know better.Positioning Claims · 39 wordsThe Liberals promised that more jobs would be created and that rates would go down, and just in case there was any doubt about this, the minister promised that he would watch Rogers like a hawk after the takeover.12 Positioning · 2 wordsWhat happened?PositioningOff point Procedure · 5 wordsLet us go through it.Procedure Claims · 74 wordsShaw was popular in my riding. Citizens started bringing in their new Rogers bills with rate increases. Even though they had contracts with Shaw, those contracts were raised by Rogers because the fine print allowed Rogers to charge more for the old Shaw equipment they had been renting. This happened to seniors and single mothers. As for the jobs that were promised by the minister, there is a new Rogers call centre in Morocco, 13Aside · 14 wordsand I am certain that the good people of Morocco probably appreciate those jobs.Aside Positioning · 33 wordsThis was a complete and total massive failure by the Liberals that benefited their friends on Bay Street and sold out Canadians on main street, like my constituents, and across the whole spectrum.Positioning Claims · 24 wordsAs for the minister who promised to watch this deal like a hawk, he will say he does not take any lessons from Conservatives, Positioning · 10 wordsor, it would appear, from anyone else for that matter, PositioningClaims · 9 wordsbecause there were lots of people who warned him.Off point Positioning · 42 wordsGetting back to the bill we have at hand, it is easy to understand why many Canadians are a tad uneasy when the Liberals say that a Liberal minister gets to decide what is and what is not in the Canadian interest.Positioning Claims · 25 wordsPeople who have those concerns, of course, are even more skeptical because the Liberals packaged all of those changes up in a nice omnibus bill. Procedure · 58 wordsI mention this last point for the benefit of the new Liberal members of Parliament who may be unaware of some of the greatest hits from previous Liberal governments that were authored by members of the current Liberal government. Before I close, I also have to reference that this bill also proposes some changes from an environmental perspective.Procedure Claims · 47 wordsOne of those changes is a timeline to complete certain reviews in one year.14 At the same time, the Liberals are also promising indigenous communities and environmental groups that everything is going to work out like it previously did, and telling them to relax and not worry. Reasoning · 34 wordsBelieve it or not, when you propose to do things differently but promise that nothing will change, that causes people to worry, and even more so when it is buried in an omnibus bill, Claims · 14 wordswhere some people think the Liberals intentionally did this shocker to avoid proper scrutiny. Procedure · 13 wordsNow, let us keep in mind that I am simply passing on concerns.Procedure Madam Speaker, Procedure · 13 wordsexcuse me. I would like to take a moment to catch my breath.Procedure
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