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Richard Cannings

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • South Okanagan—West Kootenay
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 60%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $128,729.57

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Context: House Hansard - 244 - Nov/1/23
Mr. Richard Cannings
  • Nov/1/23 7:24:45 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, as I was saying, the international trade committee exists to study issues about international trade, and when we studied the ArriveCAN app, thanks to the member for Niagara Falls, who put forward this motion to study this topic, it fit within the mandate of that committee because the motion was talking about the travel back and forth across the Canadian border and how that had been restricted in many ways by the mandatory imposition of the app. What the amendment to the motion asks of us is to dive into a deep mess of scandal surrounding the creation of the app, and that is much more something that government operations, public accounts or ethics should study. That is where this should occur, and it is occurring. If it were not occurring there, we would be asking that those committees study it, but we do not have to, because they are already studying it. I asked one member of the government operations committee how long he would be studying it, and he said there is a lot there and it would probably be until the next election. We think it is important that it be studied. It is being studied, so we do not need to study it at international trade. That would be outside the mandate of that committee.
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Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Mar/22/23 8:11:15 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Niagara Falls mentioned the wine industry and the impacts on it. Many wineries never had to pay an excise tax in Canada, but because of the actions of Australia and the WTO, Canada's government backed down and took away that exemption, and now those wineries suddenly have to pay a tax they never had a business case for. I will let the member finish on that, because I know he can speak for hours on the subject, and he has maybe a minute or so. I would ask the member to please expand on that, because it really affects the wineries in my region as well.
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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Nov/17/22 4:39:44 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-32 
Madam Speaker, I was surprised the member did not mention wine, which is one of the industries both his riding and mine share. We do not make as much as the Niagara region, but we make better wine, of course. I wanted to perhaps give him some time to expand on what we were hoping to see in this fall economic statement about support for the wine industry.
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