Madam Speaker, I rise on a separate point of order. With what has occurred here, could you please advise us how much time the current speaker has left in his speech?
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Business of Supply December 6th, 2024
Madam Speaker, I rise on a separate point of order. With what has occurred here, could you please advise us how much time the current speaker has left in his speech?
Bow River Olympic and Paralympic Athletes December 5th, 2024
Mr. Speaker, this week, athletes from team Canada are in Ottawa to be recognized for their achievements at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
I would like to recognize three exceptional athletes from the Bow River riding: Jessica Sevick from Strathmore, a two-time Olympian in rowing who switched from doubles to women's eight, culminating in a successful Olympics and a silver medal this year; Keyara Wardley of Vulcan, a two-time Olympian with the women's rugby sevens team, who won silver at the Paris Olympics; and Jennifer Oakes of Brooks, a three-time Paralympian with Canada's women's sitting volleyball team, Canada's best server in 2020 and winner of a bronze medal at this year's Paralympics.
These three extraordinary women exemplify Olympic spirit, doing Canada proud every time they wear the maple leaf. I congratulate them on bringing it home.
Carbon Pricing December 3rd, 2024
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague who I have worked with before and I appreciate what she has stated.
I will talk specifically about the carbon tax and the sugar beet industry in Canada. We now have one place left in Canada that refines sugar. We need sugar. It is a growing industry in our country. In Ontario, we grow about 10,000 tonnes of sugar beet. It is trucked to Michigan. Where is the carbon tax sense in that? It is an industry we have in southern Alberta, but with the carbon tax, it is getting so expensive to grow, to truck and to have it done as it should be so we retain this part of our industry in Canada. It is important, but the carbon tax makes it so difficult for us to compete in the world market.
That is an industry we need in southern Alberta. This is an industry we need for Canada. The carbon tax threatens it.
Carbon Pricing December 3rd, 2024
Madam Speaker, a CBC story last week listed the 10 top U.S. imports from Canada in 2023. It totalled $340 billion. Oil, gas and petroleum products made up $160 billion of that, which is 48%. Agricultural products made up $30 billion, which is 10%. Agricultural products depend a lot on oil, gas and petroleum products when we are talking about fertilizer and machinery. Transportation equipment made up $74 billion, which is 25%. Transportation equipment is steel, metal and all sorts of things made from the resource sector.
This is a tremendous amount of export to a country that is looking for self-sufficiency in North America, and it comes from Canada. A lot of it comes from Canadian exports. We are over 50%. Does the U.S. have a cap on emissions and a cap on oil and gas production now? No, it does not. Has the President-elect indicated he would put an emissions cap on oil and gas production? No. He is looking to expand their oil and gas production, and he is looking for more from his biggest trading partner in oil and gas: Canada. That is why we need North American energy security.
However, the cap would cause a reduction in oil of one million barrels per day by 2030, with an additional cut of one million barrels per day by 2035. This cap on oil emissions is a cap on responsible Canadian oil production, jobs and paycheques. In Alberta, we are talking about a reduction of 92,000 jobs. We are talking about $12 billion in government revenues lost.
The Conference Board of Canada think tank estimates the cap would reduce Canada's GDP by $1 trillion by 2030. That is a loss of 151,000 jobs across Canada by 2030, slowing the GDP by 2030 from 15.3% to 14.3%. Deloitte estimates Alberta will see 3.6% less investment, which is a 4.5% decrease in the province's economic output. Also, Ontario would lose 15,000 jobs and $2.3 billion from its economy. Quebec would even lose thousands of jobs.
I know my colleagues across the way have often talked about other forms of energy production. There are solar and wind. I have the largest ones in Canada in my riding for solar and wind energy production. The Liberals were complaining about the premier putting in a moratorium. They did a six-month review and in one of the reviews, it said not to build them on irrigated land, which there is a lot of in my riding because that is for crops, yet I still have the largest ones in Canada in my riding. The other day at seven o'clock in the morning, there were no sunlight rays hitting solar panels, no wind moving and not one iota of power was coming out of solar or wind that morning. At seven o'clock in the morning, there was nothing. What supplied it? Natural gas was supplying the energy we needed in Alberta.
With respect to the products it takes to make solar and wind energy, we are talking about steel, we are talking about aluminum and we are talking about plastics. All those things to make solar and wind energy come from the resource industry, other than glass. Now here is an interesting thing about glass: It takes sand. It takes a specific kind of sand. National Geographic reports that China is destroying estuaries all over the world as mining companies get that best small, round sand to make glass. It is not the stuff in the deserts, which is rough. From the National Geographic research—
Carbon Pricing November 22nd, 2024
Mr. Speaker, my constituents do not believe anything from that side, and neither do most Canadians. Tovi from Langdon writes me, “As owners of a small trucking business in Alberta, every time the Liberal carbon tax goes up, our fuel goes up, and we have to charge more.”
If the NDP-Liberals cannot understand that taxing people who grow the food and transport the food makes the food more expensive, can the common-sense Conservatives explain it to them in a carbon tax election?
Carbon Pricing November 22nd, 2024
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's desperate temporary tax trick proves he will do anything to save his own skin and tank the Canadian economy no matter the cost. Economist Trevor Tombe says that this will not address the economic challenges we face and that “By doing this, the government invites valid critiques that it is not taking these...issues seriously.”
The leader of the NDP will keep the Liberals in power and permanently quadruple the carbon tax again. Conservatives will axe the tax on everything for everyone. Will the Prime Minister call a carbon tax election?
Committees of the House November 19th, 2024
Madam Speaker, to my hon. colleague, with his long history on this file and his tremendous understanding of our industry, one industry that I am concerned about is sugar beets and sugar in Canada. We are down 8%, and we now import from various sources that do not have the same environmental standards we do in Canada. They used to have sugar beet refining in Ontario. They now grow them in Ontario but ship them a long way away, to Michigan, on trucks.
What would his opinion be on trade, that we are getting cane syrup from somewhere else in some of the countries that would not have the standards for labour or the environment that we do in Canada?
Indigenous Procurement November 8th, 2024
Madam Speaker, the House is seized with the question everybody wants to know: Who is Randy? After months of speculation, there is yet another astonishing twist in the fraudulent indigenous procurement scandal that has seen billions of dollars shelled out to people pretending to be indigenous for financial gain. Just yesterday, news broke that the Liberal minister for Edmonton Centre's company bid on federal contracts while claiming to be indigenous-owned.
This is not the first time the Liberal minister has clouded his identity. When discussing government contracts, his business partner said the name Randy appeared several times due to autocorrect. Then he refused to say who the other Randy was.
After nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, it has never been so good to be a Liberal insider. Even the Minister of Employment thinks it is okay to take advantage of indigenous businesses. The Prime Minister needs to remove him from cabinet and recover those taxpayers' dollars, or the common-sense Conservatives will root out their corruption after a carbon tax election.
Privilege November 5th, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the pattern that my colleague established of the problems we have had with the Liberal government over the last few years. In this particular case it is about the money, the corruption, the uncovering of those problems and the responsibility to return this money.
Could he please respond to what he believes is important about this cover-up?
Privilege November 5th, 2024
Mr. Speaker, as my colleague went through details, I think we have often mentioned that between $300 million and $400 million has been discovered at this point, but there is a lot more information. There were only 180-some cases that were looked at, and there are a lot more in that documentation. This is another reason we need the full disclosure because this is not all of it. There is much more. As my colleague has established in his speech, we have just seen the tip of the iceberg. To my colleague, why does he believe we need to look at more?