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Questions on the Order Paper With regard to isolation housing or quarantine facilities provided to foreign visitors to Canada during the pandemic: (a) how many foreign visitors have required the government to provide isolation housing or quarantine facilities upon arrival to Canada since March 2020; (b) what
November 23rd, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Broadcasting Act Mr. Speaker, my friend and colleague from Saskatoon—Grasswood touched on something that is dear to my heart and that I know is to his. We should understand Corner Gas and where it comes from. Small communities in Saskatchewan and all over Canada are dealing with trying to make ce
November 19th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Broadcasting Act Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I understand that broadcasting identified me as the member for Edmonton Manning. I am actually the member for Souris—Moose Mountain.
November 19th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to revenue collected from the federal carbon tax: (a) excluding any rebates, what is the total amount of revenue collected by the government from the carbon tax or price on carbon since January 1, 2017; (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by (i) year, (ii) province; (c)
November 16th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
The Environment Mr. Speaker, last week, a white paper entitled “Incentivizing Large-Scale CCS in Canada” was released, indicating ways to encourage investment. Construction of three projects could see $2.7 billion in GDP across Canada and support over 6,100 jobs. These three large-scale CCS proj
November 5th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
The Environment Mr. Speaker, carbon capture and storage technology has been extremely effective at reducing CO2 emissions from some of the largest emitters worldwide, including power plants and upgraders. Countries like Norway, Germany and Denmark have all invested in this green emissions-cuttin
October 27th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Carbon Capture and Storage Madam Speaker, I rise today to highlight the incredible work being done right here in Canada and around the world on carbon capture and storage technology, CCS. CCS is being utilized to significantly reduce emissions created by power-generating stations and industrial emitters th
October 26th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Hamilton Centre for the point he has identified. We look at the great work that we have done throughout this country in places like Winnipeg and at the University of Saskatchewan on developing vaccinations, etc., and we see other aspects
October 22nd, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, the hon. member for Dartmouth—Cole Harbour and I worked together on the committee for six months. I appreciated having him there. Ultimately, what we are looking at here is the issue of public servants working as hard as they can, and doing so with different restr
October 22nd, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, the hon. member touches on a very important point, and that is the issue of transparency. We have a Prime Minister who stood up in 2014, before the 2015 election, and talked completely about transparency and how he was never going to hide or keep documents and info
October 22nd, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to speak. At a time when Canadians of all stripes should be joining together to fight COVID-19 in any way we can, I am endlessly frustrated to see the Liberals attempting to withhold and hide information on this. There is a patter
October 22nd, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Resumption of debate on Address in Reply Madam Speaker, what I heard from the member in his speech when he talked about the environment was talk about businesses versus capturing emissions. I think what I heard from him is that he would agree that if a business can capture all its emissions, then we want to support that
October 1st, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply Madam Speaker, the member started off his speech asking why we had the throne speech in the first place. That is my exact question. Ultimately, as I follow this debate, all I hear from the Liberal side of the House is talk about things they have already done. As the member indic
October 1st, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
COVID-19 Response Measures Act Madam Speaker, it is interesting. We have heard an awful lot from the government about how the government is there as a team. It is working hard as a team, and it wants to include the whole team. However, what we heard from the last member who spoke was that the team was not tal
September 29th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative
Proceedings on the bill entitled An Act relating to certain measures in response to COVID-19 Mr. Speaker, we have been cramming this debate through at the last minute when we should have brought it up over the summer, discussing it among ourselves and the members in the House. The members opposite have talked about how they want to be part of a team, yet they do not wan
September 29th, 2020House debate
Robert Gordon KitchenConservative