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Context: House Hansard - 241 - Oct/27/23

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Oct/27/23 11:00:46 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, Shilan Mirzaei is a prominent Iranian human rights activist who has been wrongfully arrested for her defence of Iranian refugees in Turkey and her strong voice for human rights. Worse still, her arrest was made at the request of the terrorist regime in Iran. Mirzaei is now being held in a deportation centre in Turkey. She faces deportation to Iran and a certain death sentence. Turkish President Erdogan has been deporting innocent Iranians and Kurds fleeing the regime in Tehran. Erdogan has defended Hamas publicly and bombed Kurdish civilians in Rojava. Canada must get tough with Tehran. Delegitimize the regime. List the IRGC as a terrorist group. Get justice for the victims of PS752. The NDP-Liberal government must call on Turkish President Erdogan to do the right thing by immediately ending this unjust detention, and release Shilan Mirzaei. Jin, jiyan, azadi. Zan, zendegi, azadi.

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Context: House Hansard - 241 - Oct/27/23

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Oct/27/23 11:32:37 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it has been eight long, miserable years with the NDP-Liberal government. A year ago, its members voted to keep the carbon tax on home heating, and now they are in full panic mode. With polling numbers in free fall, their new re-election slogan is “elect them and they will only quadruple the carbon tax right after the next election”. There is no relief either for the second carbon tax the Prime Minister has piled on. My constituents know the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. When will the NDP-Liberal government admit its carbon tax is punishing Albertans and axe the entire carbon tax?

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Context: House Hansard - 241 - Oct/27/23

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Oct/27/23 11:33:55 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, obviously, the members on that side are in panic mode because of falling numbers in the polls, so they are serving up election gimmicks. This week's food bank report says that one in six Canadians is one of the “working hungry”. They are working and going to the food bank. Herman, in my riding, tells me that he has been going to the food bank for almost two years, along with his brother and two friends. Another constituent told me that he is okay, as he is skipping only one meal a day and having cereal for the two other meals. Herman and my constituents know this: The Prime Minister is not worth the cost. When will the NDP-Liberal government treat Albertans fairly and axe the entire tax so they can put food on their dinner table?

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Context: House Hansard - 241 - Oct/27/23

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Oct/27/23 12:16:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am tabling a petition on behalf of constituents in my riding. They are drawing the attention of the House to the fact that Canada has now the highest rate of common-law relationships among G7 countries, with a share of co-residing common-law couples increasing from 6% in 1981 to 23% in 2021. The petitioners also draw the attention of the House to the fact that nearly four in 10 children live with a lone parent, a step-parent, parents in a common-law relationship or those in other non-traditional unions. The petitioners call upon the Minister of Justice to initiate a statutory review of the Divorce Act, specifically concerning the federal child support guidelines, which would take into account the evolving reality of blended families' variance of income over time and better reflect the needs of children in shared custody situations.

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