Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would like to point out that my wife has a membership in a Medicine Hat co-op and through that membership we buy a lot of goods. I know for a fact that co-operatives are profitable. My wife gets an annual dividend, which is very nice. A lot of people

Canadian Defence Executive of the Year Award   navy. One of Spencer's main objectives is being honest with the customer and delivering what he has promised. Under Spencer, Meggitt Training Systems has flourished and his style has led to that business growing in Medicine Hat. It is his desire that Canada be a world leader

Annual Business Awards  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to recognize a number of organizations in my riding that won awards from the Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce's annual business awards, in conjunction with National Small Business Week. Many category winners go on and compete

Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act  Madam Speaker, it is really appropriate that I put a question to my colleague. In Taber, in my riding of Medicine Hat, an individual who had intruders on his property, who were proposing to obviously steal property, took some action to prevent that because the police were

Agriculture committee  Okay. My colleague talked about the freight rates in particular. I'm from southeast Alberta, in the corner—the great riding of Medicine Hat. We have CP Rail down there, and I hear day after day about the lack of movement of cars for producers. And it doesn't matter, as you

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I was just checking, in terms of the horticultural...I understand there was almost $2.7 million of funding from the federal government. In particular, Mr. Bell, I know you talk about the farmers' market, and we have a great farmers' market in Medicine Hat

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Madam Speaker, the Medicine Hat riding is a huge rural area. About half of the population is rural, and there are all types of farmers and products. Could the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food tell the House why we need to pass this legislation immediately for the benefit

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the witnesses for coming today. It's important to get your perspective on Growing Forward. I'm from the Medicine Hat riding in the southeast corner of Alberta. We have a huge agricultural area, with both dry-land farming

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act   heard us. We have also heard them. In addition to that, through our knowledge infrastructure program, millions and millions of dollars have been invested in universities and colleges right across Canada, including the Medicine Hat College in my own riding.

The Budget   to thank the voters of the great riding of Medicine Hat for re-electing me as the member for that constituency. My colleague just mentioned this, but I would like to mention it again because it appears that some of the members opposite do not recognize that over 70% of Canadians did

Petitions   on behalf of the citizens of Medicine Hat.

Citizen Awards  , Alex won a trip to Ottawa to tour Parliament where I was pleased to meet and congratulate her. I congratulate both Tamara and Alex on their well-deserved awards. Both of these individuals embody the civic spirit that continues to make the Medicine Hat constituency a great place

Special Olympics World Summer Games  Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to congratulate my constituent, Christine Sullivan, who will be competing in power lifting at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. Christine is from my riding of Medicine Hat, and she and 108 other athletes are proudly

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a good point. In my own riding of Medicine Hat, we have communities that have had boil-water advisories for many years. Anyway, I would also like to get an indication of what the department is doing in terms of the number of housing units and schools being built

National Defence committee  There was something else you talked about earlier with HRSDC, in terms of R and D and working with other military-type situations. We have an organization in Medicine Hat, Meggitt Defense Systems, and they have been working hand in glove with those folks, and you talked about