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House Hansard - 103

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 27, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 103 - Sep/27/22
Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)
  • Sep/27/22 10:03:28 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, I am tabling two petitions today on behalf of British Colombians. The first petition is regarding human trafficking. The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to strengthen the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act to address Canada's significant shortcomings on human trafficking, which were embarrassingly highlighted by the U.S. State Department's 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report. The petitioners also call upon the Government of Canada to remove any references to human trafficking from Bill C-5.
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Context: House Hansard - 103 - Sep/27/22
Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)
  • Sep/27/22 10:04:24 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition I am presenting today is regarding pregnancy centres. Many Canadian women depend on pregnancy centres for access to counselling, practical prenatal classes and necessities such as food, cribs, strollers, diapers and birth control. Residents are calling on the Government of Canada to protect the charitable tax status of pregnancy centres and to simply leave them alone.
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Context: House Hansard - 103 - Sep/27/22
Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)
  • Sep/27/22 1:48:57 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member talked about natural resource development and about all the discrepancies of the Conservative Party. What he failed to outline is that, in 2018, the Prime Minister came to British Columbia and spoke, with great fanfare, about the $40-billion investment by Shell into LNG export capacity in British Columbia. Part of that project and the reason it went forward and was approved by the federal government was that LNG Canada was not subject to the carbon tax. Therefore, I am sick and tired of hearing the Liberals talk all day long about the benefit of the carbon tax, but when it comes to a major investment, they say that it does not need to pay the carbon tax. Why the discrepancy?
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Context: House Hansard - 103 - Sep/27/22
Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)
  • Sep/27/22 2:12:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the new Conservative leader will put people first: their retirements, their paycheques, their homes and their country. On home ownership specifically, we need to restore hope. Right now, youth and newcomers cannot get a home, partially because local government gatekeepers block housing with heavy fees and long delays for building permits, leaving us with the fewest houses per capita of any G7 country. A Conservative government will require big cities that want federal infrastructure money to speed up and lower the cost of permits and approve affordable housing around all new transit stations. We will sell off 15% of the underutilized 37,000 federal buildings, turn them into housing and use the proceeds of sale to reduce our ever-large deficit. We are committed to giving indigenous Canadians more control over their housing needs. In other words, we have to get government out of the way and let Canadians build so that we can have some chance of affordability once again.
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