Michael Cooper

Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a supplementary report from Conservative members of the committee. The longest ballot committee constitutes a coordinated effort to undermine our elections, undermine confidence in a democratic process and sow confusion among voters. Conservatives support the recommendations in the report to close the loopholes in the Canada Elections Act that the longest ballot [more]

C-20 Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak to Bill, the badly misnamed Build Canada Homes act. Before getting into some of the problems with Build Canada Homes, let me just outline the very real housing crisis that this country faces. After 10 years of the Liberals, housing costs have doubled. In fact, housing costs are now 50% higher than they are in the U.S. Consequently, many young Canadians cannot [more]

Mr. Speaker, the past record of the Harper government was a solid one. We did not have a housing crisis in this country at the time. Housing costs were half of what they are today. The idea that a first-time homebuyer would be priced out of the market was not the reality in 2014 or—

Mr. Speaker, if it were a matter of building bureaucracies and spending money, we would have more housing and the most affordable housing in the world, because the government has added layer upon layer of bureaucracy. It has spent tens of billions of dollars around so-called affordable housing, but at the end of the day the results are that fewer and fewer Canadians can enter the market. Housing [more]

Mr. Speaker, Build Canada Homes would build 5,000 new units at an extraordinary cost. It would be totally inefficient and would not achieve the results that are needed to restore affordability. By the way, it is a concept that is not particularly new. In fact it has been tried and tested, and it failed, as recently as the last few years in New Zealand. The socialist government there put forward [more]

Mr. Speaker, there is a role for the federal government to play when it comes to working with provinces and municipalities. In that regard, I concur with the hon. member, but at the root of the problem is supply. The reason we have an issue of supply is red tape and bureaucracy due to policies of gatekeepers. We need to get gatekeepers out of the way, cut taxes and reduce barriers in order to [more]

Mr. Speaker, we are talking about a $200-million sweetheart loan to Liberal insiders. Canadians deserve to know that their tax dollars are not being handed out on the basis of political connections to this government. If, in fact, everything is above board, the Liberals should have no trouble releasing all of the documents and all of the terms of the loan. Will they?

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals handed out a $200-million loan at below market value to a company to build a wind farm in Nova Scotia. It turns out that the chair of the company is the former leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, and three of the directors are close family members of former Liberal MPs. Given that, are we to believe that it is just a coincidence that this cabal of Liberal insiders [more]

In another piece that you wrote, right after the Bondi Beach massacre, you stated that “too often leaders avoid references to antisemitism or couch it with an 'all hate matters' message”. Can you elaborate on why it is so important for leaders to call out anti-Semitism, full stop, without conflating anti-Semitism with other forms of hate, as condemnable as those other forms of hate may be?

Absolutely. Minister of Public Safety What does it say about this agreement that thehas refused to release the terms of the agreement? Prime Minister It's not only that: He has been unable to articulate any safeguards whatsoever in the agreement to protect Canadians from a regime that therecently acknowledged, and quite correctly so, as Canada's biggest security threat.

Canadian taxpayers spend $1.4 billion annually to fund the state broadcaster, the CBC. Earlier this year, B'nai Brith released a report in which it did an analysis on CBC coverage. What B'nai Brith found was a vast gap in terms of bias targeted toward Israel. References to things such as Israeli civilians were being virtually airbrushed from CBC's coverage since October 7. The conclusion of the [more]