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Robert Morrissey

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Liberal
  • Egmont
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $116,004.39

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Context: House Hansard - 295 - Apr/8/24
Mr. Robert Morrissey (Egmont, Lib.)
  • Apr/8/24 3:08:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the fishery is the backbone of Canada's coastal communities, and Liberal members of Parliament will always be there to stand up for fishers, their families and our fishing communities. On February 8, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans adopted a motion proposed by Liberal members of Parliament to instill an official five-year review of the Fisheries Act. Can the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans explain to the House the significance of the Fisheries Act review for coastal communities?
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Context: House Hansard - 102 - Sep/26/22
Mr. Robert Morrissey
  • Sep/26/22 11:36:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I totally agree with my colleague, who I sit with on the fisheries committee. Our government has added $600 million additional to the budget of small craft harbours. It is still a drop in the bucket. Successive governments have cut the A-base funding to a level, and it is still the same, of $100 million for capital across the country. Quite frankly, it is not even a band-aid. I agree this is a wake-up call on infrastructure. Somebody made the comment, and I am not sure who it was, that if this was a section of the Trans-Canada Highway in an area near a municipality, it would be fixed within a number of days. I agree with that comment. We should be able to react in that swift of a fashion to repair small craft harbours and bring them up to a standard where they will not sustain the damage they did. We know these hurricanes are coming. I support the member very much, and I will be curious to see how my government responds to that in a very positive way by putting the resources needed to build this infrastructure up to a level to sustain the storms we know are coming.
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Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Mr. Robert Morrissey (Egmont, Lib.)
  • Sep/22/22 3:07:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, recently, Canadian seafood and fishers have been targeted by an American organization questioning our efforts to protect the North Atlantic right whale. Can the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans outline the measures her department has taken working with fishers to protect North Atlantic right whales?
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