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John Barlow

  • Member of Parliament
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  • Conservative
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  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $161,345.02

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Context: House Hansard - 258 - Nov/29/23
Mr. John Barlow
  • Nov/29/23 4:47:42 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is great to have the agriculture band here and everyone here in the House today participating in this. I appreciate that. I will just highlight one thing that I think will answer my colleague's question. During COVID, the federal government worked with the provinces to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers and allow harmonization of regulations, which allowed provincially certified processing plants to have the same standing as federally certified processing plants. It works very smoothly. I think we can easily do that again, which would encourage those local processing plants to expand and grow and reduce our dependency on just three plants.
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Context: House Hansard - 83 - Jun/7/22
Mr. John Barlow
  • Jun/7/22 1:36:25 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, they were going to find those new resources only because of the tariff put on Russian fertilizer by the Liberal government. Again, we are not arguing that there should not be sanctions on Russia, but they should be sanctions that actually impact Russia and its economy. This tariff is only punishing Canadian farmers. If we have realized anything through COVID, it is that we must diversify our trade agreements and be much more self-sufficient. The tariff that the Liberals put on Russian fertilizer is the only reason farmers are paying higher costs. I might add too that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance did not even realize that Canada purchased fertilizer from Russia before putting on that tariff.
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