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Foreign Affairs  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.

February 13th, 2024House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Innovation, Science and Industry  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 thi

February 1st, 2024House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  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

January 29th, 2024House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  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

January 29th, 2024House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Public Services and Procurement  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 fr

December 13th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Public Services and Procurement  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 o

December 12th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Public Services and Procurement  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 testifie

December 12th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, China's economic cold war of taking over strategic industries in Canada has claimed another victim. After eight years, the NDP-Liberal government has turned a blind eye to this national security threat. First, China got the Prime Minister to fast-track its acquisitio

December 7th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Automotive Industry  Mr. Speaker, after eight years, the NDP-Liberal government has turned its back on Canadian labour. The government is bringing in 1,600 taxpayer-funded foreign replacement workers for the battery assembly plant in Windsor. That is $40 billion or $3,000 in taxes per household. Cons

December 4th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Automotive Industry  Madam Speaker, the Liberal Minister of Industry admitted he had not read the $15-billion Stellantis contract that will cost every taxpayer in Canada a thousand dollars in new taxes. Conservatives put forward a motion requiring the government to make contracts public. When one tak

December 1st, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Automotive Industry  Madam Speaker, will he have the guts to show the public and Canadians the contract, the thousand dollars of taxes per household, to assemble batteries with parts made from China and shipped to the U.S. for cars assembled and sold in the U.S.? Taxpayers will cover the cost of batt

December 1st, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Lobster Fishery  Madam Speaker, last weekend I had the honour to take part in a tradition that goes back through generations of Nova Scotians. Steaming out of New Harbour, I joined my good friend Vincent Boutilier on board his vessel for the setting of his lobster traps for this season about 15 m

December 1st, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Automotive Industry  Mr. Speaker, Canadians are spending billions on taxpayer-funded foreign replacement workers on the new EV battery plant in Windsor. Windsor officials report that there will be up to 1,600 foreign replacement workers. One Liberal minister said there was only going to be one. Anot

November 27th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Automotive Industry  Mr. Speaker, we noticed he did not say “Canadian” workers. On top of that, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry said that he is going to hold a meeting with the company to find out from the company what its plans are for the contract he negotiated and signed. I canno

November 27th, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Mr. Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby seems to have trouble with relevance and is acting like a Russian disinformation officer, which he generally is in the House. I would urge him to stick somewhere close to the truth.

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Rick PerkinsConservative