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House Hansard - 77

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mrs. Tracy Gray (Kelowna—Lake Country, CPC)
  • May/30/22 2:38:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, from passport delays and airport backlogs to unnecessary travel mandates, the Liberals are continuing to create an environment of uncertainty for our small business owners, and businesses are raising the alarm on serious impacts. Business leaders in Toronto stated, “The current travel experience will have detrimental and lasting impacts on how...Canada [is] viewed on the international stage.” At the industry committee, a tourism spokesperson implored government officials to take action. Will the government take immediate action, or are the Liberals okay with continuing to hurt small businesses and throwing away hundreds of thousands of tourism jobs?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray (Kelowna—Lake Country, CPC)
  • May/30/22 2:39:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, “we are working on it” just simply does not cut it. The expected jump in travel should have been foreseen. People have lost confidence in travelling to and in Canada. Other countries are dealing with it just fine. In Canada, the union representing many airport workers stated that airport delays are here to stay for the long term. Small businesses have faced a death by a thousand cuts, thanks to the Liberals. These long-term airport delays and ongoing mandates will further squeeze them. When will the small business minister defend against the transport minister's unfair and extreme made-in-Canada travel delays?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray (Kelowna—Lake Country, CPC)
  • May/30/22 10:05:16 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, is 2018, the government launched a research and education campaign that provided $100,000 over four years to Simon Fraser University to conduct research and assess the risk of invasive mussels spread in the Okanagan. It has been four years now. What are the key things that have been learned?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:05:52 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, the minister should be aware this is funding from the federal government. An additional $400,000 was invested at the same time over three years for educational outreach. The money was intended to create new advertisements. Can the minister tell us who was the target and what the purpose of this ad initiative was?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:06:30 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, funding ran out last year, and I see no funding of any kind in budget 2022 to protect western provinces from invasive aquatic species spreading across Canada. Is it correct that there is no funding?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:07:02 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, what specifically is the funding to address aquatic invasive mussels to British Columbia from being transported across Canada?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:07:26 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, I was not referring to importation. I was referring to being across the country. What the minister is referring to is actually mussels that were coming in through aquariums, which CBSA caught, and I am referring to across Canada. The fisheries department refers to deleterious substances to be used to eradicate aquatic invasive mussels. Is this the best way to eradicate aquatic invasive mussels?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:08:18 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, is this one of the methods that should be used?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:08:35 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, does the minister agree with purposefully putting pesticides or other chemicals into waterways?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:08:53 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, does the minister agree that it is acceptable to use deleterious substances to eradicate aquatic invasive mussels in waterways that are public drinking water?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:09:14 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, what are deleterious substances?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:09:27 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, is the minister's department recommending that deleterious substances be put into public drinking waterways?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:09:49 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, the Canadian government website defines deleterious substances as being added to any water where it could “degrade or alter the water quality such that it could directly or indirectly harm fish, fish habitat, or the use of fish by humans.” That is the definition right on the government's website, so the comment the minister just made is kind of shocking. Can the minister give us some examples of what a deleterious substance might be?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:10:25 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, on the government's website, it also lists chemicals, heavy metals and cleaning supplies such as bleach, detergents and pesticides. Does the minister believe that putting pesticides or other chemicals is the way to eradicate aquatic invasive mussels in large waterways?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:10:52 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, I am really glad that the minister is impressed with my comments. The most recent letter from the Okanagan Basin Water Board on April 8, 2022, expressed concerns. Does the minister agree with the concerns in its letter?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:11:12 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, this letter just came to the minister very recently, so then why is the DFO believing that it is acceptable to authorize the release of deleterious substances to prevent, control or eradicate aquatic invasive species?
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Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:11:37 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, the Okanagan Basin Water Board said that deleterious substances are “not an effective tool to address invasive mussels in larger waterbodies which are hydrologically connected to large river systems – like we have in the Okanagan”. Does the minister agree with this statement?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • May/30/22 10:12:05 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, in addition, the letter notes that Okanagan lakes are a source of drinking water and past experience with chemical treatments of invasive milfoil in the 1970s has shown that “there is no social licence for this method in our local communities.” Does the minister agree with this statement?
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