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Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees

Ken Hardie

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
  • Liberal
  • Fleetwood—Port Kells
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $140,090.09

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Context: House Hansard - 207 - Jun/6/23
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/6/23 8:24:28 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Mr. Speaker, I want to repeat a question that I posed a little bit earlier, which was artfully dodged by the respondent. Yes, there is a price on pollution, and it has added to the price of gasoline at the pump. However, in spite of all that, the oil companies have racked up an impressive $38.3 billion in profits, all coming straight out of the pockets of Canadians, straight off their after-tax income. Would the member not agree that if he is talking about inflation, and if we know that food and big oil are the largest contributors to inflation, their profits are really the issue here, not anything that the government has done?
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Context: House Hansard - 207 - Jun/6/23
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/6/23 6:37:06 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Madam Speaker, for a long time, we have been listening to a very disingenuous argument from the Conservatives about the cause of inflation in Canada. Big oil racked up $38.3 billion in profits straight from the after-tax money in the pockets of Canadians right across Canada. Big grocery has been racking up hundreds of billions of dollars in profits. Again, that is after-tax money coming out of the pockets of Canadians right across the country. Why are the Conservatives not talking about them? They are doing far more damage to the affordability of things for people in Canada than the government or anybody else.
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Context: House Hansard - 182 - Apr/21/23
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Apr/21/23 10:39:30 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Mr. Speaker, history is an interesting teacher for us. I want to point out to the hon. member that when Brian Mulroney took over as prime minister, the national debt was $200 billion. By the time he left, it was $514 billion, and that was without a pandemic. That was without an invasion of Ukraine. It seems that the Conservatives are following the same pattern of loving money more than people, looking at the price of everything but the value of nothing. Where is the factoring in of the pandemic? Our inflation rate is coming down to pretty low levels compared with the rest of the world. However, where is the factoring in of the difficulties with supply chains and the external influences on our inflation rate?
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