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Kevin Waugh

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Saskatoon—Grasswood
  • Saskatchewan
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $133,761.32

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Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Mr. Kevin Waugh
  • Apr/25/23 8:15:51 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Madam Speaker, yes, it is a big concern in western Canada with Air Canada. It seems to have pulled out. We only have two flights a day, hopefully, from Saskatoon to Toronto and from Vancouver to Saskatoon. It had many more. It is down to four flights for the Diefenbaker airport. That is all it does. We are concerned because Saskatchewan is the economic engine of this country right now. For the mining companies, like Cameco, NexGen and others, for the university, for the rare earths and for agriculture, everything I have talked about, we desperately need more flights in and out of Saskatoon. We are not getting that. It is the same for Regina. We talked about it as a caucus in February, but what we are seeing is that Air Canada is leaving western Canada, and Westjet is trying to fill the void.
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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23
Mr. Kevin Waugh
  • Mar/27/23 7:34:38 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, I did hear Gord Sinclair, and I thank the hon. member for bringing him up. Yes, through the sixties, seventies and eighties, when radio stations were forced to hit rates of 30% or 35% in Canadian content, there was a lot of Canadian talent that made a lot of people in the industry successful. We could go on for an hour naming the successful people that CanCon created. This was very much so in the radio days, but that is no more. In fact, the department does not know how much revenue Bill C-11 would bring in. It has no idea, but over a billion dollars has been put into this country by the big giants for production. I have talked about Toronto, Regina, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Calgary. These are tremendous production houses, which I fear would have closed years ago.
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