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House Hansard - 12

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback (Prince Albert, CPC)
  • Dec/7/21 7:52:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, you have heard a lot of issues we have with the United States and my first question is who is actually in charge of the relationship with the United States. Is it the Deputy Prime Minister, is it the Minister of Foreign Affairs or is it the Minister of International Trade?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:52:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is interesting. Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of International Trade, plus two other ministers were in Washington talking about the relationship. However, this past week I was in Washington talking about electric vehicles and they were not even aware of it. In fact, the Minister of International Trade made that comment in Bloomberg. Why was there no impact in the U.S. when they were down there?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:53:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Senator Marshall was not aware of it when I talked to him. In fact, his biggest concern was the cancellation of Keystone. He lost a $1-billion investment in that refinery. His question to us was why we did not fight for it.
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:54:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to know that myself, because I was not included in any of her meetings. The only things I was included in were the round tables with the home builders and labour unions. All four of the labour unions asked why we did not stand up for jobs with Keystone. They said that they lost so many jobs because of the cancellation of Keystone and they asked me where we were.
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:54:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, again, President Biden released reserves of oil and gas to lower gas prices and asked the OPEC nations to supply more fuel. Why would he not turn to Canada, our best friend, to get those resources?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:55:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great point. That was not even mentioned in any of the briefings while we were in Washington last week. In fact, we did not even talk about Line 5. This is a line that involves tens of thousands of jobs in Sarnia and it was not even on the agenda.
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:55:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us back up. Congressman Young from Alaska asked the minister last year about the issue with cruise ships going up the west coast. The Jones Act requires them to actually stop in Vancouver and then move on to Alaska. All they wanted to do was tie up for 10 minutes, not leave the boat and proceed on. Why did the government not answer his call?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:56:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the honesty from the minister. However, this is actually a foreign affairs question, because it was foreign affairs and GAC that did not relay the information. Now what has happened in that sector is that this congressman has put forward legislation that, in the future, would bypass Victoria and Vancouver and all the cruise ships that are now required to stop there. What would the impact to the tourism industry be in Vancouver if they did not stop?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:56:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the United States is leading Canada on so many things throughout the world, and one is reshoring companies back into North America. Just yesterday, there was a $240 million investment in Virginia by Toyota. A couple of weeks ago, there was a $17 billion investment by Samsung in Texas. We were not even in the running. What is the minister's plan to actually bring business into Canada?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:57:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister understands that the $17 billion investment in one project in Texas is more than all of Canada's investments in the manufacturing sector last year. She must have a strategy for bringing investment into Canada. What is that strategy and what is she putting forward in resources in our trade commissioner service to do exactly that?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:58:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, again, the U.S. has a reshoring program in place. It is actively going throughout the world to shore up their supply chains and bring back the critical manufacturing goods into the U.S. When we talked to members of Congress and the Senate, they would love to include Canada. In fact, we talked about critical elements and the development of them. They do not want to buy them from China; they want to buy them from Canada. However, the reality is that all our critical elements are in the ground and the only way to get them out of the ground is to go through the same requirements as our oil and gas sector. Therefore, what will the government do to see that critical elements can be developed in Canada?
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Context: House Hansard - 12 - Dec/7/21
Mr. Randy Hoback
  • Dec/7/21 7:59:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in promising these critical elements to our best friend and trading partner, the military in the U.S. definitely wants them. They want to work with us, yet there is no game plan in Canada to make it achievable. What is the game plan moving forward to actually join our supply chains and do things like critical elements together so that North America can benefit?
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