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Rick Perkins

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • South Shore—St. Margarets
  • Nova Scotia
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $136,927.65

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Context: House Hansard - 175 - Mar/29/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/29/23 3:11:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for the second year in a row, Liberals have expropriated $5 million a quota from elver harvesters to give to others without compensation. This is against two decades of DFO policy that a willing buyer needs a willing seller. The minister, in committee this week, stated that the expropriation will come mainly from harvesters who have not used their quota, yet her department has said it will come equally from all licence holders. Who was right? Was it the minister, or her officials?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:26:21 p.m.
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Madam Chair, Chief Justice McLachlin stated in the Stephen Marshall case that the right to hunt, fish and gather is limited to the things that first nations hunted, fished and gathered in 1761 when the treaty was signed. Since the minister did not know that, can the minister explain to me why the minister decided to expropriate 14% of the commercial elver quota—
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:15:49 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I would like to ask the minister when this decision will be made with regard to herring quota, since the season is about to start.
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:15:05 p.m.
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Madam Chair, 80% without a plan is not a strong performance. Is the minister going to cut the southwest Nova Scotia herring quota by 63%?
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Context: House Hansard - 57 - Apr/25/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Apr/25/22 3:08:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what is lost in time is any answer from the government. Recent decisions by the government, which take away fishery licence holders' quotas on the east and west coasts without compensation, are counter to the long-standing policy of “willing buyer, willing seller”. DFO sources tell me the minister was about to expropriate 15% of lobster traps from licence holders, without compensation, to give to first nations. This would be devastating for these fishermen. Will the minister state in the House, categorically, that the government will not expropriate from lobster fishermen?
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Context: House Hansard - 46 - Mar/25/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/25/22 11:59:11 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, last year, a week into the Atlantic mackerel season, a confused DFO closed it. A few days later, it opened it and fishermen landed their quota within about two days in locations where mackerel are not traditionally found. DFO has not assessed the stock off the Scotian shelf in more than a decade, yet it continues to cut the quota. The NDP-Liberal government just closed the healthy Pacific herring stocks against the science. Holy mackerel. Will the current government start listening to fishermen, or is it “just incompetent”?
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Context: House Hansard - 44 - Mar/23/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/23/22 2:36:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in the last two weeks, B.C. crab fishermen off Tofino had 50% of their quota expropriated and given to others without compensation. Maritime elver fishermen had their quota expropriated and given away without compensation last week. The NDP-Liberal marriage ceremony is over and the Tofino honeymoon is on, but it is the fishermen who are being hurt by the consummation of this marriage. Will the Liberals listen to the NDP-government member for Courtenay—Alberni, who called on his government to fairly compensate fishermen for this expropriation?
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