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House Hansard - 287

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 28, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)
  • Feb/28/24 2:21:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption after eight years, especially with revelations related to arrive scam. While common-sense Conservatives will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime, the Prime Minister wasted at least $60 million on his ineffectual app. After fighting for weeks to get witnesses to committee, we have new information that GC Strategies' contract resulted in an expense for $19 million to a company that does not do IT work, for an app that sent more than 10,000 Canadians forcibly into quarantine with no justification. Today's motion, which Conservatives brought forward, is essential, as it calls out the lack of transparency from the Liberals and will require accountability for this injustice inflicted upon taxpayers. While Liberals use every trick in the book to stop the truth from coming to light, Conservatives will bring accountability back to this country.
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Feb/28/24 5:35:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I raise this as a technical concern in this place. A vote took place, and the timer associated with the app was not accurate. Those members may think it is user error. For those who do not understand the concept of blockchain technology, that is really rich. Before we proceed to another vote, the timing issue on the app is of the utmost concern. I did vote early in the process to ensure that I would have time to verify my vote. The 10-minute voting period does indicate an allowance for votes to be cast later in that process. When I did look back at the app, there was 30 seconds left on the screen in the lobby, but three and a half minutes left on the voting app. To further emphasize the seriousness of this technical concern, it was about 20 minutes after the vote finished that I got the confirmation email that said my vote was, in fact, nay. I raise serious concerns about the ability of members to fulfill their constitutional parliamentary functions in this place, especially on an issue as important as the future of our democracy, which the Liberals are certainly putting at—
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Feb/28/24 5:38:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, just to ensure the table has the information that emphasizes some of the technical challenges, including the email that arrived late, I would ask for unanimous consent to table the particular email and therefore indicate—
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Feb/28/24 5:39:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask for, in the preservation of democracy, a recorded vote.
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)
  • Feb/28/24 6:37:05 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I really appreciate the speech that my friend, colleague and neighbour from Saskatchewan made regarding this issue. I would ask the member if she could share additional stories of examples in which the practical change she has proposed would be truly life-changing to adoptive parents and the adopted children who are given that chance to form the appropriate bonds and whatnot that are required for the development of children in those essential relationships.
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)
  • Feb/28/24 7:31:58 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, what has been very interesting in this discussion is that we are seeing the NDP desperate to distract from the fact that its members are forced to abandon their principles and prop up one of the most corrupt regimes in Canadian history. We have corruption on one side and lazy corruption in the leader of the NDP over there. Why is that member forcing, through limiting debate on standing orders, something that should be done through consensus? Why is he showing Canadians that the NDP and the Liberals are allergic to work? That member has obviously never pulled a calf on a cold March morning, and he certainly never sat in a combine at 3 a.m. in September, when we know that the weather is turning. Why are they so terrified of working for Canadians in this place? Why is that member specifically so bent on propping up the corruption we see within the Liberal Party?
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Feb/28/24 7:34:26 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, Canadians demand an answer from the MP as to whether or not he is saying that younger Canadians should not be involved in politics because that is an absolute disgrace—
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Feb/28/24 7:38:24 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, something needs to be cleared up here. The member is suggesting that somehow young people should not be involved in politics. The Leader of the Opposition is proud to be involved, in this case, in Conservative politics. That member is suggesting, somehow, that young people do not have a role to play in our democracy. That is certainly disgraceful and something that the old NDP, which used to have principles, would have resoundingly rejected. When is the NDP going to stand up for the namesake of its party and actually defend democracy, as opposed to simply being lackeys for the Liberals and supporting their corruption?
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Context: House Hansard - 287 - Feb/28/24
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Feb/28/24 8:02:30 p.m.
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I would ask for a recorded vote.
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