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Blake Richards

  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Banff—Airdrie
  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $145,439.36

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Context: House Hansard - 68 - May/10/22
Mr. Blake Richards (Banff—Airdrie, CPC)
  • May/10/22 3:02:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that sounded like another load of disinformation. Tourism operators, restaurants and other small businesses in Alberta are ready to be back at full capacity, but there is something holding them back: severe labour shortages. In many cases, these shortages are forcing them to cut back their business hours. They cannot even turn to the temporary foreign worker program, because the Liberal government is drowning small businesses in red tape and is failing to process LMIAs and work permits. Does the Liberal government not understand the massive economic cost of businesses being closed because they cannot find enough workers, or does it just not care?
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