Tamara Jansen

Mr. Speaker, it is not just the abuse of our refugee system that has people in my riding shaking their head. They are hearing about situations like this: a young woman going about her life, when a stranger violated her by groping her not once but twice. He was charged, he was convicted and then he was given a discharge by the judge, and no criminal record, because without a record he can stay in [more]

Mr. Speaker, I have been hearing something troubling from people in my community. They tell me that the international students whose visas have expired are being told by immigration consultants, “Just claim asylum. You'll be able to stay.” Prime Minister Now people are gaming a system that was meant for people fleeing real danger, and this is clogging the line for genuine refugees who actually [more]

C-9 Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition regarding Bill. The Canadians who have signed this petition want to remind the government that it has no authority over sacred texts or teachings of any faith community. That boundary is not negotiable. Bill C-9 would overstep the boundary, stripping away long-standing protections that have allowed Canadians to speak and live their faith in good [more]

Mr. Speaker, there is a deep irony in the heart of the bill. The government claims it is about protecting Canadians from harm, yet the first thing the Liberals did was remove the good-faith protection that ensured Canadians could express their religious beliefs without fear. I would ask my colleague why he thinks the government is so determined to remove good faith from the law and from this [more]

Mr. Speaker, I spoke with a man in my riding who works at a local cabinet manufacturing shop. He works hard and pays his taxes, but his hours were cut because students with expired visas take his shifts for cash under the table. This is the direct result of a system the previous Liberal immigration minister let spiral out of control, where international students came without proper oversight and [more]

minister Mr. Speaker, what we are seeing today did not come from one mistake. It came from years of mismanagement by multiple Liberal immigration ministers. One opened the floodgates without oversight. Another failed to enforce the rules, and now the currentis continuing with more permits, with millions of visas sitting expired or unchecked. Even Liberal MPs have said this minister is not up to [more]

Thank you, Chair. Just for quick context for anybody who's watching, today we're here with Public Services and Procurement Canada. They are basically the central purchasing agent for the Government of Canada. The reason they're here is that the government is coming back to Parliament asking for more money than was originally budgeted. That's what the supplementary estimates are about. As I was [more]

Okay. I want to go over, for a moment, one ad campaign that was launched last month. I think it popped into my Facebook feed or something like that. It's from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. I thought it was really interesting. You're advertising a website for them that has a mortgage calculator and a household budget planner. It has a credit card repayment calculator. It compares bank [more]

What I find really interesting is that you wouldn't know ahead of time what your ad campaigns would be. You regularly come asking for additional spending beyond what was originally planned. I find it really tough for Canadians who are paying millions of dollars for advertising that teaches them how to stay on budget while the government continues to run deficits and increase spending. Maybe you [more]

I have a quick question. Do you have a right to refuse ad dollars when you're over budget, or is it more of a rubber-stamp in your office?

It's all discretional. Is that correct?