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Official Languages Act Madam Speaker, I thank the president of the Treasury Board for her intervention today and for her answer to my colleague for Sarnia—Lambton. One of the things I noticed is that one of the changes appears to be that there might be a fine instigated here. It seems we are seeing a
April 1st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I am pleased to hear that the member possibly does shop at Dollarama, because of the great things it does and the great work it provides. That is providing work for people to actually do a job, and it is great to hear that he continually wants to support businesses
March 31st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary's question points me to what the biggest problem in this country is. It is the fact that Canadians do not understand what rural Canada is. Rural Canada is the breadbasket of our food. Our farmers out west and throughout the industry hav
March 31st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I believe the member is from Abitibi—Témiscamingue, and I appreciate his comments about rural Canada, because it is very important. It is nice to see that people recognize that aspect of things. His comment is very pointed, in the sense that I get the fact it is n
March 31st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Prince Albert for his fantastic and riveting speech, which not only brought us back in history but also focused on Canada and not what the rest of the world is doing. Today’s debate is an extremely important one, not just because of the u
March 31st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Rural Communities in Saskatchewan Mr. Speaker, last week, members from the South Saskatchewan Ready partnership came to Ottawa regarding the phase-out of coal-fired electricity and the negative impacts it is having on rural communities. Only 3.5% of the funding given through just transition has been dedicated to
March 31st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Madam Speaker, a lack of federal consultation with the province of Saskatchewan resulted in a massive cost increase over RCMP retroactive pay. Provinces fund 70% of RCMP policing costs, yet the federal Liberals refused input from the provincial government on the issue, despite an
March 25th, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the seizure of drugs by the Canada Border Services Agency since 2018, broken down by quarter and by type of drug: (a) what is the quantity of drugs that were seized; (b) how many shipments were seized; (c) what is the estimated street value of the drugs that were s
March 21st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to expenditures on outside auditors to audit government financial statements, since January 1, 2016, broken down by department, agency, or other government entity: what are the details of each expenditure, including (i) the vendor, (ii) the date, (iii) the amount, (iv
March 21st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the first report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (C), 2021-22”.
March 21st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Leonard Joseph Gustafson Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Leonard Joseph Gustafson, a former member of Parliament, parliamentary secretary to then prime minister Mulroney, and a senator, who passed away last Friday. Len was born in, and loved, Macoun, Saskatchewan. Throughout his life he was m
March 21st, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Economic and Fiscal Update Implementation Act, 2021 Mr. Speaker, it is good to see you in the chair. I know the member is well aware that the Canadian taxpayer has the ultimate responsibility for the ever-increasing $1.2-billion debt the current Liberal government is continually escalating. The member also mentioned in her speech
March 4th, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Emergencies Act Mr. Speaker, the member talked a lot about how FINTRAC was going to be able to try to categorize the money coming from foreign countries, yet this is the same government that cannot figure out how $12 million of CERB payments were given to Canadians outside this country. I digres
February 19th, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Emergencies Act Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for Humber River—Black Creek for her speech. I know she has been a big champion for many things throughout Parliament and her career, particularly the Canada-Taiwan organization, and I applaud her for that. She is now championing the issue of the Em
February 19th, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Emergencies Act Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Trois-Rivières for his speech and also commend him and his colleagues for their speeches, which have clearly indicated that the government has not shown any justification for why this should be coming forward and imposing this upon Canadia
February 19th, 2022House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative