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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 - 177 - Mar/31/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/31/23 11:45:12 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the minister only needs to check the lobbyist registry to see more than 65 meetings with his department and the PMO. In December, this Liberal minister said he would not rule on the sale until the legal challenges were over. There is a legal challenge before the CRTC currently on this deal where Rogers is providing preferential rates to Videotron for access to its network that no other cellphone provider can get. Why has this minister flip-flopped on his commitment to wait for the legal challenges to be over? Is it because Rogers set today as the deadline?
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Context: House Hansard - 102 - Sep/26/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Sep/26/22 8:35:13 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I was pleased to hear the member for Kings—Hants's report about a better situation this time than with Dorian for the apple growers. Indeed, that is really good news. It was a large issue. The member for Kings—Hants talked about the trouble getting cellphone service. We know that after Dorian this was a huge issue. Cellphone tower batteries actually died, and we had no cellphone service. At that time, the federal public safety minister Ralph Goodale was in Nova Scotia and was getting an earful from Nova Scotians about that. His response was that he understood they were a necessity now, but if people had a complaint they really should complain to the CRTC. It does not appear that anything was done to improve the situation because here we are three years later and we still have the same issue happening.
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Context: House Hansard - 87 - Jun/13/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Jun/13/22 1:47:38 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, my question for the member is around this issue of whether or not something gets captured by the CRTC. I understand it states in the bill that anything that generates direct and indirect revenue would now be regulated by the CRTC. Pretty much every piece of content that is put up on the Internet has an advertisement beside it. That advertising generates revenue based on the content. The government claims user-generated content is not included in the regulation, but it is hard to see how it is not when it is generating revenue through advertising. I wonder if the member could comment on that.
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