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Scot Davidson

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • York—Simcoe
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $119,263.34

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Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Mr. Scot Davidson (York—Simcoe, CPC)
  • Jan/30/24 1:16:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-59 
Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Winnipeg North is right about one thing. Conservatives are going to axe that tax. Let us talk about that tax, although I suspect he is not going to answer my question. The Prime Minister said his most important relationship was with our first nations, yet he is discriminating against the first nations in my riding based on geography. Let us talk about that carbon tax rebate. The Prime Minister made an announcement out east. I know the member for Avalon is here. His riding got rolled back with its data from the census so that it stayed rural. My riding of York—Simcoe is now considered to be a part of Toronto so that no one gets the 20% rural top-up. The member for Winnipeg North knows that it would take 14 hours to walk to the Finch subway station from my riding. The Deputy Prime Minister likes to say that she does not even need to own a car as she can just walk out of her house and get on a subway. We do not have subways, we do not have streetcars; we do not have transit. I would like him to comment on that. The answer will be astounding, I am sure.
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Context: House Hansard - 248 - Nov/7/23
Mr. Scot Davidson (York—Simcoe, CPC)
  • Nov/7/23 4:28:16 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I want to try to find common ground. I think the leader of the NDP and I would both agree that the carbon tax disproportionately affects rural Canadians more than urban Canadians. My riding of York—Simcoe is now classified as urban. I think the leader of the NDP knows my riding as the soup and salad bowl of Canada, the ice fishing capital of Canada and the home of the Chippewas of Georgina Island. According to the Liberals, we are now classified as part of the city of Toronto, being 70 miles outside of Toronto. We have no streetcars. We have no subways. We have no Uber. As unbelievable as this is, we have no hospital. We have to drive 40 minutes to get to a hospital. How does the leader of the NDP think it is fair that we do not get the rural top-up or the doubling of the rural top-up, as meagre as it is? It is helpful to some, but we do not get it.
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