Helena Konanz

Mr. Speaker, the message being sent is that there can be promises made and not kept, and that is not a good thing for democracy. C-69 C-48 If the Liberals would like to introduce legislation to repeal Billand Bill, I would be pleased to help them pass that legislation really quickly. I would trust that they have Canadians in mind and are here to help us, but since they are not, those bills are [more]

C-5 Mr. Speaker, I remember Billbecause it was one of the first bills I voted on. I was happy to support anything that would bring infrastructure to our country and infrastructure to create a more sovereign country. I think because of the criticism that the government has had for not creating any projects with Bill C-5, even though it was rushed through so fast, the Liberals made an announcement [more]

Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague needs to remember that there were promises that Canada would soon be building at unimaginable speeds. Instead, what we are hearing now is that the Liberals need another layer of bureaucracy in order to start building at those unimaginable speeds. The member promises there will be thousands and thousands of projects coming forward. I would like to see one thing [more]

Mr. Speaker, my question is pretty simple to my colleague across the floor. I appreciated his presentation. C-5 I am fairly new at this. I have only been an MP for a little over a year, close to a year and a half. I just want to know what happened to Bill. Why did it not work? The government was supposed to build at speeds unheard of. I cannot name a project that has come through; maybe the [more]

C-39 Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to speak in this House on behalf of my constituents of Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay, especially on legislation of such national importance as Bill. C-5 C-69 C-48 I cannot help but feel some déjà vu. One of the first votes I took in this chamber after election last year was on Bill. At that time, the Liberal government presented it because [more]

Mr. Speaker, in my region, people often ask me how our country, with the fourth-largest oil reserves on earth, pays such high prices at the pump. A lost Liberal decade of high taxes and red tape has held back Canadian energy projects to process more Canadian-made fuel. We cannot control the global price of diesel, but we can reduce the costs that Ottawa adds. Our Conservative emergency fuel [more]

Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have been pushing to make life more affordable. When we have packages of bills that come at us or policies that come at us that do not make sense, of course we are not going to accept every one. We need Canadians' lives to be more affordable. We have been pushing for lower taxes on gasoline everywhere, but in a riding like mine, where it is a seven- to eight-hour [more]

Mr. Speaker, on the evening of August 7, when the Bald Range wildfire ignited and spread with frightening speed, brave firefighters and first responders put their lives on the line to keep us safe and to protect our lives, our homes and our communities. Within hours, the entire community of Summerland was evacuated. Thousands of evacuees poured into Penticton, many with little more than the [more]

Mr. Speaker, obviously this is a temporary fix. I do not think there is anyone in the House or anyone in Canada right now who thinks that life is going to be a lot more affordable by April, when this tax relief is due to end in the bill. We need to look at the long run here. This is going to be a tough winter. This is going to be very difficult in my riding. In particular, as many members know, [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am so glad the member is looking a gift horse in the mouth so readily. The Liberals have a deficit of nearly $100 billion. It is one of the highest deficits ever. It is my children and the children of Canadians right now who are going to suffer when they try to pay back that deficit.

C-38 Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the House to represent the great residents of Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay. Their words and their feedback will always guide me in this chamber, as they do in this debate on Bill. For rural and remote communities like the one I represent, driving is a fact of life. It is not a choice. When I checked GasBuddy before coming to the [more]

Mr. Speaker, today I am presenting an e-petition with over 800 signatures on a very serious subject, which is cases involving high-risk federal offenders convicted of intimate partner violence. The petitioners ask that they would have to wear an active GPS electronic monitoring system, including either geofencing or exclusion zone enforcement where appropriate, which would provide a more [more]