Rick Perkins

[Carbon Pricing, February 15th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's NDP-Liberal friends got rich turning the arrive scam app into a $60-million grift for an $80,000 app. If hurting taxpayers for the personal gain of Liberals was not enough, now the Prime Minister is going to increase the cost of everything on April 1 when he increases the carbon tax by 23%.

Nova Scotians will pay $2,100 more than they get back for this carbon tax. After eight years, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost.

When will the Liberals stop hurting Canadians and axe the carbon tax?

[Foreign Affairs, February 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, today the Minister of Fisheries threw 300 elver harvesters out of work. I am sure you will find unanimous consent in the House to condemn the government for that.

[Innovation, Science and Industry, February 1st, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the former CEO of the Liberal green slush fund revealed that she warned Liberals that the Prime Minister's hand-picked chair, Annette Verschuren, should not be appointed because of her conflict of interest and that green slush fund staff also told the minister of this conflict, but Liberals appointed her anyway. Then, Liberal board members went on award to their own companies more than $20 million of green slush fund money. Liberals had officials in every meeting, but did nothing about this corruption until it was in the media.

Why did it take a media story for the Liberals to act on this corruption?

[Questions Passed as Orders for Returns, January 29th, 2024]

With regard to the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry's trip to the United Kingdom to attend the Al Safety Summit 2023: (a) what was the minister's detailed itinerary on the trip; and (b) what are the details of all meetings or tours attended by the minister during the trip, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) time, (iii) location, (iv) list of attendees, including the organization represented by each attendee, (v) agenda items, (vi) topics discussed and decisions made?

[Questions Passed as Orders for Returns, January 29th, 2024]

With regard to the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry's trip to Japan in November 2022: (a) what was the minister's detailed itinerary on the trip; and (b) what are the details of all meetings or tours attended by the minister during the trip, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) time, (iii) location, (iv) list of attendees, including the organization represented by each attendee, (v) agenda items, (vi) topics discussed and decisions made?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, December 13th, 2023]

Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Industry has been for 35 months the minister on this file, and the Prime Minister's hand-picked chair of the green slush fund admitted last night that she tried to get $2.2 million in taxpayer money funnelled to the Verschuren Centre vanity project from the fund she chairs. Then she got the employees of the slush fund to get another $10 million for the Verschuren Centre vanity project from Liberal ministers. She took the money and ran. Verschuren claimed this was being an entrepreneur; we are calling it grifting.

Why did the Prime Minister let his green slush fund chair abuse the taxpayer for personal gain?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, December 12th, 2023]

Mr. Speaker, it is just not good enough that they will not deal with Liberal corruption at the green Liberal slush fund. In fact, it took the minister 35 months under his watch to suspend the green slush fund when his own officials were in the meeting. The whistle-blower testified last night that the chair of the green slush fund tried to get $2.2 million from the fund into her own vanity project, the Verschuren Centre, a direct conflict of interest.

Since industry officials were in the meeting, why did the minister not fire this Liberal corrupt director the minute that happened?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, December 12th, 2023]

Mr. Speaker, the minister will not tell us which Liberals got rich. Government officials, last night, admitted that they were in every single board meeting where this happened in the Liberal green slush fund.

According to the whistle-blower, the former chair and directors took over $150 million of taxpayer money to their own companies. Government officials were present during these meetings and allowed it to happen.

Why did the minister not fire these corrupt Liberal directors?

[Supplementary Estimates (B), 2023-24, December 8th, 2023]

Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I want to thank everyone for their work over the last 30 hours and to remind Canadians that the Liberals and NDP just voted 134 times to increase the price of everything.

[Supplementary Estimates (B), 2023-24, December 8th, 2023]

Mr. Speaker, since we have all these wonderful recording devices here, I think that Canadians would like to know, on this vote, which side of this House wants to quadruple the carbon tax and which wants to axe it.