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House Hansard - 250

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 9, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 250 - Nov/9/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Nov/9/23 10:47:36 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am just wondering about relevance. We are talking about foreign investment into Canada and about Bill C-34. The hon. member is talking about artificial intelligence and investment in Montreal, which has absolutely nothing to do with the bill.
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Context: House Hansard - 250 - Nov/9/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/9/23 11:08:06 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Madam Speaker, I listened intently to the hon. member's speech and his answers to questions. What I did not hear from him was an explanation about why he and his colleagues voted against the amendment at committee that would have sent every acquisition by a company headquartered in a hostile state like China or Russia to an automatic national security review. That was a legitimate national security power that we wanted to give the minister, yet the Liberals refused it. Can the member tell us, please, why his party continues to be soft on China and Russia?
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Context: House Hansard - 250 - Nov/9/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/9/23 12:27:06 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the speech by the hon. member, and it started with a false premise. The hon. member seems to think he is an expert going back to the Investment Canada Act's introduction on how many investments have been approved or not approved through the process. Of course, he said none, which is completely false. Even in the Harper government, just briefly, there were examples. PotashCorp was rejected by the Harper government, as were the sales of the Canadarm to U.S. interests and Radarsat. Thus, the member should do his homework a little more before he speaks about those issues. However, on the bill itself, could the member explain why he thinks the government believes that cabinet should not be involved in the decision-making process in any acquisition of a corporation by a foreign entity?
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Context: House Hansard - 250 - Nov/9/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Nov/9/23 12:29:08 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Not true. I was there.
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Context: House Hansard - 250 - Nov/9/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/9/23 1:20:23 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Mr. Speaker, it was an excellent speech, particularly on the issues of the amendments to the bill that we managed to get passed. The bill missed the opportunity to do anything other than administrative changes, so we managed to update it to the geopolitical issues we have today. I am sure the minister will appreciate having those powers. I would like to expand this a little more, because the Liberals voted against our amendment that would have focused strictly on the issue of headquarters in hostile states. This is a big national security issue. It is not to reject it, but just to make it an automatic review. I am not sure why the Liberals would be afraid to have the power to review it and decide whether they want to reject it on that basis.
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Context: House Hansard - 250 - Nov/9/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/9/23 2:48:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, eight years times zero targets met is still zero. After eight years of that zero government, Canadians know that its environmental record is nothing but hot air and hypocrisy. The Bay of Fundy can supply green tidal energy to all of Nova Scotia and make us a net exporter of green energy. The only successful project to harness the power of the Bay of Fundy, delivering endless green energy, was killed by those Liberals when they refused to renew the permit. They killed capital investment in tidal power. Why does the Prime Minister claim to support green energy but veto green tidal projects?
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