Jacob Mantle

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, thepromised Canadians a declining debt-to-GDP ratio. He promised fiscal prudence, especially for the next generation. Prime Minister Can the Leader of the Opposition tell me what the budget says? Did thekeep that promise and will Canadians be spending more or less on debt?

Minister of Natural Resources Mr. Speaker, I am rising to follow up on a question that I posed to thenot that long ago about the Liberal government's failure to remove antidevelopment laws from our oil and gas industry that are hindering our ability to become, in the government's own words, an energy superpower. minister We still have, as I pointed out to the, a west coast shipping ban. We still [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, I am not asking the member about news today. I am asking him about a policy from 2023, which the government refuses to change. I am not asking about LNG or when the next pipeline will be built because it does not matter if someone gets a pipeline built if their customers cannot refine the product. That is the problem with the Glasgow statement. It prohibits Export [more]

Madam Speaker, I am always open to consultation with the provinces. I talked about constitutional issues. One, of course, is the division of powers. I am not sure I agree with the member's premise. The Criminal Code is obviously within the purview of the federal government, not the provinces. However, there is nothing that prevents the federal government from consulting with Quebec or any other [more]

Mr. Speaker, today the Auditor General released a sobering report on Canada's anti-money laundering watchdog, FINTRAC, which reports directly to the Minister of Finance. Here is the bottom line up front. The AG said, “FINTRAC did not effectively carry out its role in overseeing compliance with Canada's anti-money laundering laws” and that “limited FINTRAC's ability to help detect, prevent, and [more]

Madam Speaker, I hope the member opposite is not impugning a dad who came to listen to his MP and impugning his ability to parent his children, because I think that would be offensive to him. For the record, I do not believe I said he was scared. I said he was brave, and he was brave. He was brave to be there to speak to his MP and tell his MP what he thought about the issue. If that is funny to [more]

Madam Speaker, I would reiterate that many of my colleagues and I agree that there are issues we need to address for the protection of our children. I think we are trying to get to the right balance here, one that seeks to protect children and protect the privacy rights of Canadians, and I hope we get there.

Madam Speaker, like many members of Parliament this past summer, I consciously spent some time speaking with residents in my riding about this proposal, which was introduced before the summer recess. The reviews were mixed, I have to say. Some were in favour of it, some opposed, and I will get into some of the reasons for that. leader of the official opposition I met with one specific group that [more]

Madam Speaker, that is a very important question. It raises the issue of the efficacy of this proposal. What we have seen is that there are mixed reviews of efficacy. If we look at the Australia model, which the government touts, a huge number of underage children access social media anyway through VPNs or other means. There is also the issue of the number of users on platforms that would be [more]

Madam Speaker, the member points out a big problem with this bill, which is the regulator. It is going to make dozens and dozens of decisions after the bill is passed, and we have no idea what those decisions may be. We had an independent review through the Privacy Commissioner, which this bill would remove. I would think the starting place would be to get back to having the Privacy Commissioner [more]

Mr. Speaker, if the government was serious about this issue, it would have created the agency, which it promised in 2021, and it would not have missed the legal deadline to review the Proceeds of Crime, Money Laundering, and Terrorist Financing Act. The reality is that police need timely access to this information, and yet the Auditor General found that it took on average 112 days for FINTRAC to [more]