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Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 2 Mr. Speaker, I rise in my place today to debate Bill C-31, an act respecting cost of living relief measures related to dental care and rental housing. When the Liberals introduced this legislation in September, they would have had Canadians believe that it was a bill aimed to pa
October 5th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Taxation Mr. Speaker, because of the current government's actions, the workers in my riding have been left suffering with an affordability crisis. If three years of COVID were not bad enough, Liberal policies have only added to their pain: from the disastrous ArriveCAN app driving down to
September 23rd, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the government's ArriveCan application: (a) since January 1, 2022, how many individuals have been exempted from the requirement to submit the information required by the application prior to arriving in Canada; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by circumstance o
September 20th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Madam Speaker, I rise in this place during this solemn time to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to the members of the royal family and to all those in the Commonwealth as we collectively mourn the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. As the member of Parliament
September 16th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 Madam Speaker, yesterday we had an opportunity to meet with representatives from the Frontier Duty Free Association. Two of the three representatives at that meeting were from my riding. They told us that during the pandemic the revenues generated by these duty-free operations w
June 8th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 Madam Speaker, one of the things I have been doing in my role, for example, is to bring forward the concerns of those residents in my community of Niagara Falls. They are telling me that they need us to scrap the ArriveCAN app. I have 40,000 people who work in the tourism sector
June 8th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 Madam Speaker, to my colleague's point, during the pre-budget consultation period, all the tourism stakeholders came forward to the government and indicated some of the programs they needed to continue moving forward going into the 2022 tourism year, including the extension of CE
June 8th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise in this place today to debate Bill C-19, an act to implement certain provisions of budget 2022. I will say from the outset that I will be voting against this high-spending federal budget, which proposes to dig Canada deeper into debt and dr
June 8th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary spoke to a number of issues. Unfortunately, none of them touched upon tourism and the impact that the cost-of-living crisis is having on the tourism and travel sector. Perhaps she should have spoken to two of her colleagues, who are in th
June 7th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Health Mr. Speaker, budget 2022 allocates $25 million to the continued mandatory use of the ArriveCAN app, yet it failed to extend important tourism recovery programs for businesses that still needed the help. The government has been warned that the ArriveCAN app is impacting travel to
June 2nd, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I am here today to speak on behalf of my constituents: the 40,000 people who work in the tourism sector. Situations like ArriveCAN are harming the tourism industry. There is no need for the tourism sector to continue to arrive at situations that disincentivize trav
May 19th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, to respond to the member's question, I think one of her colleagues mentioned the lack of preparation on behalf of the current government. It is not prepared for this time. It has had two years. During COVID, it hired thousands of workers, so why is it that we are f
May 19th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, earlier I mentioned the general manager from the Fort Erie Peace Bridge Authority. He wrote to us on May 10 and shared some statistics that are staggering. Even after COVID testing requirements to enter Canada were lifted on April 1, auto traffic for the month of A
May 19th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, during this pandemic we have asked the current government to share the data and to share the science. It has continued to refuse to do so over two years. Going back to just this February, Dr. Zain Chagla, an infectious disease physician at St. Joseph's hospital in
May 19th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for South Surrey—White Rock. It is an honour for me to rise in my place today to speak about a pressing issue facing Canadians and international travellers entering and exiting through Canada's various ports of entry, in
May 19th, 2022House debate
Tony BaldinelliConservative