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Kyle Seeback

Conservative Dufferin—Caledon 66 statements translated

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Seeback focuses on defending Canadian industry, demanding tariff relief for auto makers and restricting temporary foreign worker programs in skilled trades. He often leaps to political conclusions, stating that the “cost of living crisis created by the Liberal government” without establishing a direct connection.Written by AI from their statements. Updated .

Average grade
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88 / 100 over 51 statements
Signal 76 / 100
Relevance 86 / 100
Respect 100 / 100
Clarity 95 / 100
Loses points more than most for Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.1.5 times as often as most members.What the tags mean ×1.5 Loses points less than most for Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.Less often than most members.What the tags mean A promise with no date, no measure and no one responsible.Less often than most members.What the tags mean Thanks and tributes.Less often than most members.What the tags mean Averaged over the 51 of 66 statements graded so far.

Statements 66

Government Orders ·

Business of Supply

“If electric cars are the future, why did Honda just cancel its 15-billion-dollar electric vehicle plant under this government?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, if electrification is the future, as he keeps saying, then why did Honda just cancel its $15-billion electric vehicle manufacturing plant under his government’s watch?

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“The minister said Chinese electric car makers use unfair practices and break labour and environmental laws. Yet the government is letting 50,000 of these cars into Canada each year. I want the minister to explain why his actions do not match his words.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, the minister also warned that Chinese EV producers benefit from “unfair, non-market practices” and “don’t respect labour law and environmental laws”, and yet his government is letting in 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles every year. Were his words wrong then, or is his position wrong now?

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“Canadian car makers cannot switch from making mostly gas cars to only electric cars in eight and a half years. The minister promised not to let in cheap Chinese cars, but his government is letting 50,000 of them into Canada each year. Does he still stand by his promise?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, so in eight and a half years, he is saying that Canadian auto manufacturers will go from producing 1.6% of their vehicles as fully electric to 100%. No, that is absolutely impossible. The minister said Canada “would never be a back door to cheap Chinese vehicles which are overly subsidized”. Does he still believe that, in light of his government letting in 50,000 Chinese vehicles into Canada every year?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“If electric cars are the future, why did the government give Ford $464 million to switch a factory back to making gas cars?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, if electrification is the future, as he keeps saying, then why did he just give $464 million to Ford to convert its factory, which was going electric, back to an internal combustion engine factory?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“Canada only makes a tiny share of electric cars. The government's plan for electric cars just means bringing in over 50,000 electric vehicles made in China.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, when he says that electrification is the north star in Canada, and we only manufacture 1.6% of our vehicles as electric, what he must mean by “electrification is the north star in Canada” are the 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles that he is now allowing into Canada. Is it not really what he means when he says electrification is the future or the north star, that it is the 50,000-plus Chinese electric vehicles that he is going to be bringing into the country?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“Only a tiny fraction of cars made in Canada meet the government's zero-emission rules. Almost all of the cars we make will be banned by 2035. Why did the government make a rule that does this?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, 1.6% of the vehicles manufactured in Canada will meet the Liberal zero-emission vehicles mandate. That means that 98.4% of the vehicles manufactured in Canada will not. Why did the Liberals set up a zero-emission vehicles mandate that will make 98.4% of the vehicles manufactured in Canada illegal by 2035?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“The minister has not answered my questions. Canada makes 1.2 million vehicles, and only 20,000 are fully electric. I want the minister to tell me what percentage that is.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, it is becoming quite embarrassing now. I have asked three questions, and the minister has not even attempted to answer any of them. I will answer that question as well. It is 20,000 vehicles. Out of 1.2 million vehicles manufactured in Canada, 20,000 of those are fully electric vehicles that will meet the zero-emission vehicle mandate. Does the minister know what percentage that is of the vehicles manufactured in Canada?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“The minister did not answer my question. Of the 1.2 million vehicles, how many were electric cars made in Canada?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, once again, the minister is either unwilling or unable to answer a question that I am asking. The answer to that question is this: 1.2 million vehicles. Does the minister know, of those 1.2 million vehicles, how many were electric vehicles that were manufactured in Canada?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“The minister has not answered my last two questions. I want to know if he knows how many vehicles were made in Canada in 2025.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, it is very frustrating when ministers will not answer questions. That is two questions I have asked, and two questions he did not answer. Does the minister know how many vehicles were manufactured in Canada in 2025?

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In response to a question from François-Philippe Champagne

“I want the minister to admit that the government's rules are an electric vehicle mandate. By 2035, only fully electric vehicles will meet the rules.”
Official Hansard

Yes, Mr. Chair, I am splitting my time. I asked the minister about a zero-emission vehicle mandate, and he did not answer. I am assuming it is because the minister did not know the answer. In fact, the regulations that the government has put forward actually mean that only a fully electric vehicle will meet the tailpipe emissions target by 2035. Will he agree with me that this is a zero-emission vehicle mandate?

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“I want the minister to answer my questions. The government said it ended the rule requiring electric car sales. Does that rule still exist in Canada or not?”

  • Question or comment in debate

    Signal 38 of 100

    Much of this statement went to praise, blame, greetings, routine procedure or general stories rather than reasons, requests or specific points.

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Official Hansard

Mr. Chair, I am having a very hard time understanding what the Liberal EV and auto strategy is. I have a series of questions for the minister, and I hope he will actually try to answer the questions I am asking. Minister, your government announced the end of the zero-emission vehicle mandate. Is it your position that there is still no zero-emission vehicle mandate in Canada for automobiles?

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Statements by Members ·

Liberal Party of Canada

“The Liberals are wasting billions of dollars on consultants and failed projects. This spending has doubled the deficit while regular Canadians are still struggling and using food banks.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, after 11 years, it is the same Liberal waste and Liberal corruption going on every single day. The Liberals spent nearly $300 million on the PrescribeIT program, yet they could not explain where the money went and why almost nobody used it. Liberal-connected consultants are now getting a gobsmacking $26 billion a year, up 37% from the previous year. This is costing the average family $1,400. They are spending $200 million on a so-called spaceport that is nothing more than a gravel parking lot in Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, after all this spending, 2.2 million Canadians go to food banks every single month. It is really not hard to figure out how these Liberals doubled Justin Trudeau’s deficit. What is really hard to figure out is why things are still so hard for average Canadians.

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Oral Questions ·

Finance

“The Liberals did not lower the deficit. They increased it from $30 billion to $65 billion. Canada now has the highest unemployment rate in the G7. The government must apologize to the 112,000 families who lost their jobs and now need food banks.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, I almost do not even know where to start with that statement. The member said the Liberals reduced the deficit by $11 billion. That is not true. Under Justin Trudeau, the deficit was $30 billion. It is now $65 billion. That is not less, it is more. If they do not know that is more and not less, maybe that is why we have such a problem. When they say they are going to do things, they do not seem to understand that if they write something down, it does not mean it actually happens. That is why we have the highest unemployment rate in the G7. Will the Liberals at least apologize to the 112,000 Canadian families that lost their jobs and are now going to food banks?

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In response to a question from Kevin Lamoureux

“Canada's unemployment rate is higher than other major countries. We lost 47,000 jobs in April. The government doubled our national debt, and I want to know why the results are so bad.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, the unemployment rate in Japan is 2.4%. In Germany, it is 3.7%. In the United States, it is 4.2%. In the United Kingdom, it is 4.7%. After the Liberals have been running our economy, Canada is at 6.9%. We shed 47,000 jobs in April alone. That is 47,000 families that now have to figure out how they are going to pay their rent or their mortgage and put food on the table. After doubling the national debt and spending so much money, how have the results for Canadians been so terrible?

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Oral Questions ·

Finance

“The government's deficit is going up, not down. Canadians also have high personal debt just to buy food. The government is spending more money to pay interest on its debt than it spends on health care. I want to know why they keep adding to Canada's debt.”

  • A repeated line

    “We have the highest household debt in the G7.”

    Said 5 times by 4 members since April 27.

    Every time it was said
Official Hansard

Madam Speaker, they really did learn how to manipulate numbers from Bernie Madoff. They say that the deficit is down. They projected a terrible deficit. They just made up a number. It is actually double what it was under Justin Trudeau. That is up, not down. I hate to break it to these guys. Canadians now have the highest household debt in the G7. Why? They are borrowing money to pay for their daily and weekly costs, including groceries. Everything has gotten worse under the Liberals, including debt. Why do they keep racking up the debt on Canada’s credit card so that we spend more on just the interest portion of servicing the debt than we do on health care?

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“The Liberals are spending another 65 billion dollars and doubled the national debt. We now spend more money on debt interest than on health care. Are the Liberals proud of this?”
Official Hansard

Madam Speaker, all week, the Liberals have said they are going to spend less and invest more, except they define what spending is and what investing is. It is almost like they got their accounting advice from Bernie Madoff. What we know is that the Liberals are now spending another $65 billion on Canada’s credit card. They doubled the national debt, so we now spend more on interest servicing the debt than we do on health care. Are the Liberals proud of this record?

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Oral Questions ·

Finance

“The Liberals doubled the national debt in eleven years. Their spending has made Canada unaffordable, and it is not working.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, the member said, “We are spending less to invest more”. That is the kind of thing someone’s crooked accountant tells someone when all their money has gone missing. This is exactly what the Liberals kind of do. They make up words and phrases to cover up for the fact that they have doubled the national debt. Some hon. members: Oh, oh! Kyle Seeback: Mr. Speaker, they are shouting because they do not like it. It took 148 years to accumulate a certain amount of debt. Eleven years of these guys running things and they more than doubled it. The result is our children and grandchildren are mired in debt. With all of their investments, why is it the least affordable country we have had in the history of Canada? These investments clearly are not working.

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“The Liberals doubled Canada's national debt in 11 years. We now spend more money on debt interest than on health care. I want to know if the government plans to add even more debt today.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, from 1867 to 2015, over 148 years, Canadian governments accumulated a certain amount of debt. Over the last 11 years, the Liberal Prime Minister and Justin Trudeau doubled it. They doubled the entire national debt in 11 years. This now means we pay more interest on the debt than we do in health care transfers. There will be an economic update today. Are these Liberals really going to celebrate another massive increase of the debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay off?

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Government Orders ·

Government Business No. 9—Changes to the Standing Orders

In response to a question from Arnold Viersen

“The Liberals are blocking committee work so they do not have to share documents or face questions about the finance minister's conflict of interest. They are also trying to hold secret meetings so the public cannot see them vote down our ideas. This hurts democracy.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely true. The Liberals are filibustering at the HUMA committee, like I described, to block the production of documents. They are filibustering at the ethics committee to avoid accountability for the finance minister, who is in a conflict of interest. I think we are going to see that increasingly. One thing that I suspect will also start happening now is that the Liberals will bring motions to go in camera at committee. They are going to say, “Mr. Chair, we would like to move the meeting in camera.” For Canadians, this means that for whatever happens in that meeting, we cannot speak about it publicly. The Liberals will do that to avoid further accountability by holding the clause-by-clause review of legislation in camera, so they are not seen voting down opposition amendments. I think that this is going to be an incredible stifling of democracy. It is deeply troubling how they are doing this at the accountability committees. If they actually cared about accountability, they would do this at the justice committee or they would do things at the finance committee to get their legislation through. However, they are doing it at the accountability committees, the ones that hold them accountable, without a democratic mandate. These are dark days for democracy in Canada.

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In response to a question from Martin Champoux

“The Liberals will keep using large bills to cut off debate and block committee studies. They will not accept our changes. They use special rules to rush laws through without proper review.”

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Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, I think we are going to see the Liberal tendency to use massive, omnibus pieces of legislation, stifle debate and close down investigations at committees or prevent them from starting. This is something we have seen repeatedly over the last number of months. It is something we are going to see increasingly; it is going to accelerate. The Liberals will not accept amendments from the opposition. They will use things like time allocation motions to shut down debate in the House of Commons. They will use closure motions like they are using on this motion. They will use programming motions that not only shut down debate but also program the amount of time spent in committee so that the legislation avoids scrutiny. This is going to be a catastrophe.

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