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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands, Lib.)

Nov/20/23 3:54:13 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to table a petition on behalf of the residents of the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington region, and specifically the community of Clarendon Central Public School in Kingston, regarding the school food program. The petitioners call to the attention of the government new Statistics Canada data that indicates one in four children in Canada lives in a food-insecure household, that Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program and that budget 2022 reaffirmed the December 2021 mandate letter commitments to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development with respect to developing a program of this nature. They, therefore, call on the government and ministers responsible to prioritize funding for a national food program through budget 2024, with implementation in schools by the fall of 2024.

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands, Lib.)

Nov/20/23 4:15:03 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-57

Mr. Speaker, the problem with that last speech is that none of the facts back up what the member said. He said that Conservatives stand with Ukraine. He will have to explain to me why, when President Zelenskyy came to the House, the Leader of the Opposition never once mentioned it on social media. As a matter of fact, in an act of subtle defiance, the member for Calgary Nose Hill had to go back a year ago, to the last time Zelenskyy addressed this Parliament, to quote a tweet of what he had said that time, as though that was somehow justifying the fact that he had visited this time. More importantly, to the red herring that he just pulled up about why we need this now, it is because Ukraine came to the table, sat down with Canada and made the deal. Now the Ukrainian Canadian Congress says that it “strongly supports the strengthening of trade and economic ties between Canada and Ukraine. Canada and Ukraine have negotiated this treaty, and we call on all parties to support the swift adoption and implementation.” Does the member know better about this issue than the Ukrainian Canadian Congress?

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands, Lib.)

Nov/20/23 4:57:34 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-57

Madam Speaker, over the last few weeks we heard a number of comments about five Conservative members who went on a trip to London. What we have not heard a lot about is some of those members, at least one, had their expenses paid for by the Danube Institute. The Danube Institute is a right-wing Hungarian think tank that recently a published a paper that said, “the stakes of the Russia-Ukraine war are not Ukraine's sovereignty, but the victory of NATO, the expansion of the US 'deep state', 'wokeism', LGBT propaganda, climate protection goals and implementation of mass immigration.” Coincidentally, right after that trip, Conservatives are now talking about this legislation as being woke. Can the member not just admit that at least some of the Conservative members in his party have gone down the MAGA rabbit hole we are seeing from U.S. Republican congressmen right now in the United States with respect to Ukraine?

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Mark Gerretsen

Nov/20/23 5:19:25 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent to see the clock at 6:42 p.m.

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