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Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the government’s response to reports that the BC Cancer Agency was refusing to provide life-saving cancer treatment and instead suggested that a patient receive medical assistance in dying (MAID): (a) what assurances, if any, does the government have to ensure that
January 29th, 2024House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Carbon Pricing Madam Speaker, the Rocky Ridge Turkey Farm in Langley just received its heating bill. It was $3,000 and shockingly, a quarter of it is the carbon tax. When it quadruples, farmer Steve's heating bill is going to be 60% carbon tax. It is ridiculous. After eight years of the NDP-Lib
December 15th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Carbon Pricing Madam Speaker, where is the support from the Liberals for our common-sense bill, Bill C-234, which they rejected? It is a common-sense solution to tackling food inflation. Why did the Prime Minister reject supporting Canadian farmers and the citizens who rely on them for a good,
December 15th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the Lytton Homeowner Resilient Rebuild Program: (a) how much money has been distributed through the program to date; (b) how many recipients have received funding through the program; (c) what was the average payment amount received; and (d) how many applications h
December 12th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to expenditures by the government on cannabis intended for veterans: (a) what were the total expenditures on cannabis intended for veterans, broken down by year for the past five years; and (b) what are the details of all contracts that the government has for cannabis
December 12th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act Madam Speaker, the Internet is an amazing tool. It is fast, powerful, readily accessible to all and inexpensive. Economically, socially and culturally, it has levelled the playing field so anybody and everybody can be their own publisher, their own printer and their own marketing
December 11th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Carbon Pricing Madam Speaker, people in British Columbia are coming to realize that the NDP-Liberal carbon tax is exactly that, a tax plan that is causing inflation, higher interest rates and higher mortgage payments. After eight years of the NDP-Liberal government's mismanaging our economy, Ca
November 3rd, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Carbon Pricing Madam Speaker, the member opposite is not even listening to what British Columbians are saying; 72% of people in my province say that the carbon tax is both ineffective and unfair. Even the NDP premier is now calling for carbon tax fairness. The member for Cloverdale—Langley Cit
November 3rd, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
The Economy Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the current NDP-Liberal government, where are we at? Well, more Canadians are frozen out of the housing market, rents are doubling, inflationary deficits are driving up mortgage payments and our federal government is saying, “Our inflation is not
October 20th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Criminal Code Mr. Speaker, it is a great question that would take a lot of conversation to fully answer, but it goes to show us how important the sex offender registry is. It is a very useful tool for the police. It is not perfect, but it is another tool.
October 4th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Criminal Code Mr. Speaker, first of all, I am going to donate to the cause, so I thank the member for that. It was good work. The member is absolutely right that the vast majority of victims of sexual assault are women. He is also absolutely right that, as the member for Fundy Royal said, wit
October 4th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Criminal Code Mr. Speaker, there are good things in this bill. One of them is to give more voice to victims in publication bans, so we completely support that. However, we need to study the bill. It is too bad that it is going to be so rushed, but our committee is soon going to be seized with
October 4th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Criminal Code Mr. Speaker, we are here today talking about a very uncomfortable topic: sexual crimes, the way we deal with offenders and the way we protect victims. We acknowledge as a society that sexual crimes are heinous or injurious and have long-lasting effects, sometimes for the rest of
October 4th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Affordable Housing and Groceries Act Madam Speaker, I have a question about the grocery portion of Bill C-56. I am reading the Competition Bureau's report from June of this year entitled, “Canada Needs More Grocery Competition”. In that report, the Competition Bureau makes the point that the big three retailers ea
September 25th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative
Criminal Code Madam Speaker, of course we all stand behind the age-old principle of the presumption of innocence and the right to reasonable bail. However, I am going to talk again about the 40 people who have been responsible for 6,000 interactions with the police, which is 150, on average, p
September 18th, 2023House debate
Tako Van PoptaConservative