Seamus O'Regan

[Carbon Pricing, June 18th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, let us go through the numbers yet again. For a family of four in Alberta, it is $1,800; in Manitoba, it is $1,200; in Ontario, it is $1,120; in Saskatchewan, it is $1,504; in New Brunswick, it is $760; in Nova Scotia, it is $824; in PEI, it is $880; and in Newfoundland and Labrador, it is $1,192 a year. To most people, that is a lot of money. To these guys, it is phony.

[Carbon Pricing, June 14th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, let me repeat the numbers because the numbers bear repeating. It is $1,800 a year for a family of four in Alberta, $1,200 a year in Manitoba, $1,120 in Ontario, $1,504 in Saskatchewan, $760 a year in New Brunswick, $824 a year in Nova Scotia, $880 a year in P.E.I., and it is $1,192 for a family of four in Newfoundland and Labrador.

That is cold, hard cash, and the Conservatives would know that if they bothered to check their own bank accounts.

[Labour, June 12th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I will make sure that both sides remain at the table and that they are fully supported by our federal mediation and conciliation service, which has a 96% success rate in preventing work stoppages and strikes. We stand with them. They are well supported at the table.

[Labour, June 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we are aware of the situation. We will stay on top of it and we will keep the member informed.

[Labour, May 28th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, as members are aware, Canadian airlines are private sector companies. The government does not regulate wages in companies, aside from setting a minimum wage. Employers must pay their workers no less than the minimum wage for all hours of work performed, which is protected under the Canada Labour Code. This is an issue we take very seriously and we are monitoring it closely.

[Carbon Pricing, May 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, there is $1,192 for a family of four in Newfoundland and Labrador, $760 for a family of four in New Brunswick, $824 in Nova Scotia, $880 in PEI, $1,120 in Ontario, $1,200 in Manitoba and $1,800 in Alberta. These are not phony benefits. This is not chicken feed, as has been described by the other side. This is cold, hard cash. This goes into the pockets of Canadians.

[Mental Health and Addictions, May 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, there are right ways to go about things, and then there are explosive, dramatic and catastrophic ways to go about things. In talking about using the notwithstanding clause, the Leader of the Opposition's response was, “All of my proposals are constitutional, and we will make them constitutional using whatever tools the Constitution allows me to use to make them constitutional. I think you know exactly what I mean”, he says. “They will happen, and they will stay in place.”

For anybody like me, who has a right that was afforded to him because of this charter in my lifetime, these are chilling words that they—

[Labour, May 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, what is happening right now is a cooling-off period. It is a normal part of the collective bargaining process. Our facilitators and conciliators remain closely with both parties at the table. We remain committed on this side, as I know the hon. member is, to making sure that they remain at the table. The best deals are made at the table.

[Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act, May 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I honestly cannot wait to vote against those amendments, in the same way I could not wait to say no to 20,000 amendments that that party put forward to try to block this piece of legislation. That is not practical investing. That is not investing in the future. That is hoodwinking. This member has accused the premiers of those two provinces of being hoodwinked by us. He has accused us of hoodwinking the Premier of Nova Scotia and the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. I do not think so.

Conservatives have done everything they can to get in the way of this.

The Progressive Conservative Party, which I have spoken very highly of, and John Crosbie, whom I would consider a mentor to me, built this industry, but we know what the Conservative Party has done with this industry. For goodness' sake, when it took 300 days for an environmental assessment for just an exploratory well, Conservatives found a way to make it 900 days. They are the kings of red tape when it comes to our offshore industry. We have reduced it to 90 days.

They think I am going to pay attention to their amendments because, clutch my pearls, we are being partisan. I do not think so. Get out of the way of investment. Get out of the way of jobs. Get out of the way of the future. This is happening and we are leading.

[Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act, May 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member knows I love Argentia and I like taking people to Argentia.

The energy transition is going to be complicated, as the hon. member knows, and I am very proud of my province in the fact that as we continue in one energy sector, we are working in another energy sector. In fact, our industry association has changed its name from NOIA now to Energy NL, with the express purpose of looking at ways to lower emissions and looking at the overall energy mix and how they all work together.

I am very proud of Argentia as we see the gravity-based structure for the West White Rose project being built. It is being built with wheelbarrows. What they had to do is unbelievable. Right next door to it is the biggest monopile marshalling port on the eastern seaboard. This is where they are stacking all those big monopiles that are going to go up and down the eastern seaboard. These are the same workers, and I am very proud of them. It is a workforce with some of the best experts, when it comes to energy, in the world, developed in the past 30 years in my province. It is taking over the world. It is something to be proud of.