Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's input in the House and his speeches as well. He represents a great part of our country. Regarding green industries, and agriculture is one of them, a United Nations committee stated that we need to remove cattle from the prairies because

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Abbotsford, who has a long history in trade. During his time as trade minister, 51 agreements were completed. Therefore, I am honoured to share my time with such a financial wizard of trade. North America has a trad

Canadian Heritage  Madam Speaker, the new CRTC guidelines in the Yale report that the minister is reviewing are deeply flawed. I have strong concerns about the journalists being licensed and registered. I am also very frustrated about Yale report recommendation number four that would have nine bo

Tourism Industry  Madam Speaker, what I would like to do is read a recommendation regarding the CRTC from a report that just came in. It states: We recommend…to reduce the maximum number of Commissioners to a Chair, a Vice-Chair, and up to seven additional Commissioners, each appointed for a sin

Tourism Industry  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to stand in this august place and speak tonight. One of the news items today was about the cancellation of the Teck project in Alberta. This is devastating news in Alberta. It is devastating news for the whole country. This is a big mi

Rail Transportation  Mr. Speaker, we know the government is seized and needs WD-40, but radical activists who may have no connection to the Wet'suwet'en people are holding our country's economy hostage. We have a right to freedom of speech and freedom to protest, which I strongly defend, but we do

Tourism Industry  Madam Speaker, we recently learned that Destination Canada spent $550,000 on 550 stock photos. That is $1,000 a photo. I am all for promoting travel to our great country, but this seems a little ridiculous. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but $1,000? Does the governmen

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, aluminum has been mentioned a number of times. Historically, Canada was the major producer during the original NAFTA. Now it is said we are protected by 70%. China has been a big producer of aluminum. Now we are exporting ingots to Mexico, but I heard from the othe

Health  Madam Speaker, cystic fibrosis patients like Marten in Taber, Alberta, are eagerly awaiting approval of a new, potentially life-saving drug. It is approved in other countries like the United States, but Canada is falling behind. Even if it was approved, we need leadership from th

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, there is another issue in my community that is getting worse, and it is called rural crime. In the community of Carseland, the post office was broken into twice and the little store in the community was broken into as well. What is really sad is that Canada Post ha

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to stand in this House. It is always a privilege to speak in this place and it is a great place for Canadians to see us represent them. In my community the resource sector is a huge and critically important industry. Many businesses have

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated listening to my colleague, the member for Kootenay—Columbia, in the sense of his long record in the RCMP. I would believe that probably from his experience and understanding of input when policy that will affect a new agency that does similar types of

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, Canada has many beautiful parts and Kings—Hants is one of those. I visited that riding a number of times even before the member was born. However, it is an agricultural area and one of the things in the throne speech that was missed was agriculture. Agriculture is cr

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to government loans and grants to businesses since January 1, 2016: (a) what are the names of the companies that received grants and loans, including, (i) the program under which the loan was granted, (ii) the amount of the loan, (iii) the amount that has been paid ba

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to spending on stock photographs or images by the government since January 1, 2018, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, and other government entity: (a) what is the total amount spent; and (b) what are the details of each contract or expenditure, inc