Rhonda Kirkland

Madam Speaker, Thanksgiving should be a time for families to gather around a full dinner table, not worry about whether they can afford to put food on it, yet Thanksgiving dinner is projected to cost an extra 10% again this year. At Simcoe Hall Settlement House in Oshawa, food donations are just one-third of normal levels. After 11 years of the Liberals, will the government finally admit that [more]

Madam Speaker, I would have a lot more respect for the member for Whitby if he was standing up for the auto workers in our community. The Simcoe Hall Settlement House food bank in Oshawa is now capped at 70 households a day. Demand has not fallen; it is having to turn people away, but food being donated has. Grocery costs are still rising while meals are getting smaller and smaller for [more]

Mr. Speaker, the member knows well that when that was voted on, I was not elected as a member of the House. It is so interesting that he stands here and says that I voted against it. On this, I want to be clear. I voted against the last budget because it was inflationary and was going to make things worse. They know it. We know it. Canadians need to understand that as well. The other thing is [more]

Mr. Speaker, the answer is very plain and simple. I have had phone calls at my office about the dental program, and I can tell the House with full confidence that the majority of those phone calls are negative about the dental program. There are seniors who cannot get access to it who should have access to it. It is a mess of a problem in terms of the logistics and administration of it. Dental [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, this is true in Oshawa as well. Young people are having a harder and harder time finding work. They want the promise that they were promised. They want to work hard, earn an income, own a home and start a family, but 11 years of failures from the Liberal government and the, who for the last seven years was an adviser before he became Prime Minister 19 months ago, are [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today on behalf of my constituents in Oshawa in support of our Conservative motion, which asks the House something simple: to recognize these facts. The Liberals have been in power for 11 years and Canada is in an affordability crisis, yet in March of this year thestood in this very House and claimed, “Affordability is the best it has been [more]

Mr. Speaker, Darren Scott Ray raped, tortured and murdered a 14-year-old boy, Darren Pepin, in Scarborough. He strangled this child to death and dumped his body in the garbage room of his apartment building. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Today, many of Darren's young former classmates, who now call Oshawa and Durham region home, are in the very community [more]

minister Mr. Speaker, that is an out-of-touch response from the. This is not an isolated case. This year alone, Canadians have watched multiple pedophile child killers who have received life sentences get unescorted temporary absences from prison, including two in B.C. within 10 days of each other. Darren Scott Ray received a 72-hour unescorted temporary absence in Oshawa and has been promised [more]

Mr. Speaker, Clifford is a senior from Oshawa who called my office this week to share his struggles. He is on a fixed income and is having difficulty paying for rent, buying his groceries and even affording the medication he needs to survive. These are life's necessities, not luxuries. The Conservatives have a plan that would actually work to lower inflation and save Canadians money on all of [more]

Mr. Speaker, there is probably nothing I enjoy more in this House than listening to my Conservative colleague from Richmond Centre—Marpole speak with such common sense. He lays it out very plainly and very clearly that legislation upon legislation is not the answer. We have heard from the Liberals repeatedly that, every time they implement new legislation, it is going to create speed and [more]

Thank you, Chair. I want to take a moment to defend the honour of my colleague Mr. Lawton. It seemed like there was a lot of anger thrust toward him just now when he said that we really want the ability to possibly add subamendments to amendments. If the Liberals get their way and they choose to follow through on a programming motion, the truth is that not only will we not get to look at each [more]

I'm sorry. I guess it's a point of clarification.

I'm sorry. I am confused. Are we not talking about BQ-5?

I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

You're going to support—

Thank you. Because you said that, I feel like I need to respond. I will respectfully disagree. We are trying to move through these. We've had legitimate questions. Every question has been legitimate. In fact, I think we're just about ready to move on with regard to this one. The truth is that we wouldn't need to spend so much time asking questions on the amendment and the bill had we had [more]