SoVote

Ken Hardie

Member of Parliament
Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
Liberal

Fleetwood—Port Kells
British Columbia
Voting Attendance: 67%
Expenses Last Quarter: $140,090.09

Government Page

Context: House Hansard - 212 - Jun/13/23

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

Jun/13/23 11:58:21 a.m.
Watch

Mr. Speaker, my first speech in this House involved a compliment to the hon. member for the great work that she has done in the Downtown Eastside in representing a constituency that has a lot of challenges. I do not disagree with anything that she said, but I wanted to introduce two aspects and get a reaction to them. One is the zoning and the difficulties that people have getting cities to actually approve developments. Second is the reticence of municipal governments to increase property taxes on existing residents, which leads to the pilling on of development cost charges on new buildings that only serve to jack up the price for people who are buying those units. Can she comment on both of those?

124 words

Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

Mar/30/23 5:47:44 p.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, in recognizing the effort that it took to get the international mother language day to this point, I do have to recognize the tireless efforts of our consul general from Bangladesh, because Bangladesh is where this all started. They saw something important and have been working tirelessly across all nations to bring this to where we are today. I mentioned the food, poetry and music, but there is also the issue of humour. I will divert for a second here, because years ago, I got to attend a lecture by Marshall McLuhan who said that one could tell an awful lot about society by its language and its humour. He told a story from the Soviet Union, and this is back in the early 1960s. The Soviet Union said it was going to lighten up a little bit and was going to build a nightclub, and it did. It opened with great fanfare, but eight months later it was shuttered, and so there was a Russian equivalent of a royal commission to find out what happened. Members of the commission asked the people questions: What about the decor, was it okay? They said that they had copied great designs from Paris, Rome and Berlin. What about the food or the booze? It was perfect, and things people could not get in Russia they could get at their nightclub. What about the chorus line? It was perfect, every one a good party member since 1917. That was a big joke in Russia back in those days, but it told a little bit about the ethos that we had at that time. The ethos here I think was most appropriately set by our late friend and superb parliamentarian, Jim Carr, from his final speech in the House of Commons. He said, “I love this country, every square metre of it, in English, in French, in indigenous languages and in the languages of the newly arrived.” I would like to repurpose Jim's following remarks, because his remarks were intended to preempt the notion that his private member's bill on greening the Prairie economy somehow encroached on provincial jurisdiction. Jim said that rather than a federal intrusion, it added leaves to the table, one that we set to build a better Canada. That, too, is the outcome of celebrating international mother language day across Canada each February 21. We are not constraining, diluting, confusing or imposing. We are adding leaves to Canada's cultural table. The feast we enjoy by doing so will be satisfying in every way.

430 words

Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22

Mr. Ken Hardie

Oct/18/22 1:13:43 p.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I believe the rules of presenting petitions are that there should be a brief summary and do not allow a member to literally fill up the time that might be asked for by other members presenting petitions. The member should be directed to keep it brief. This is not a speech.

58 words

Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

May/11/22 8:10:32 p.m.
Watch
Re: Bill C-11

Mr. Speaker, I would appreciate the reflections of the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands on what we have heard from the Conservatives. They make some very strong points about freedom of speech, but how does that compare with their party's policy toward the CBC, which they say they would defund and basically try to get out of the news business? Is there a conflict there that she could comment on?

72 words

Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

Feb/21/22 1:52:20 p.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, what a change that was. I am wondering if the member listened to the speech this morning by the hon. member for Parry Sound—Muskoka. My goodness, what a change in tone that was, and not for the better.

42 words

All Topics

SoVote

Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees

Ken Hardie