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Rick Perkins

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • South Shore—St. Margarets
  • Nova Scotia
  • Voting Attendance: 66%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $136,927.65

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Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Apr/24/23 3:08:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the DFO's elver science is done on the East River-Chester, the only river. Elver harvesters have been begging the DFO to monitor and enforce the law on that river, yet poaching is happening every night. I personally observed that for the last three nights. During the open legal season and since the closure, no one from the DFO has been on that river. If members can believe it, DFO enforcement proactively called the licence-holder this morning to say that it would not be monitoring the river for either law enforcement breaches or science. Why is this the case?
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Context: House Hansard - 102 - Sep/26/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Sep/26/22 2:46:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, good wishes are not enough. If this happened on the Trans-Canada Highway, reconstruction would be happening now. There are only a few weeks left until winter sets in. We cannot wait weeks for assessments, months for design and permitting, months for tendering and months for construction. DFO needs to use its enormous power now to begin rebuilding now. When will DFO do its job, support commercial fishermen and get to work?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:25:02 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I guess this is why the department is failing in its targets. Eight degrees is the answer. It is 8° when DFO does its science on spawning biomass, when mackerel only spawn in waters of 10° to 13°. Is the minister surprised to learn that the science that is being presented to her presents a picture of a low spawning biomass when DFO does its science because mackerel are not spawning?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:23:13 p.m.
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Madam Chair, how many prosecutions have occurred from DFO investigations for out-of-season fishing in the Maritimes?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:20:38 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the minister needs to get new lawyers, I believe. The DFO human resources department has grown by 66% under this government, with 833 full-time equivalent employees alone. With not enough science on the fisheries side, why would DFO increase employees in the department by 66%?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:18:27 p.m.
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Madam Chair, why did DFO instruct CMP officials during the lobster crisis, and the year after, to not go on the water and just observe if they were enforcing the law?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:16:56 p.m.
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Madam Chair, Marshall I states that the indigenous right to participate in the unregulated fishery of 1761 is a right to participate in the regulated fishery of today. Why, then, for at least the last three years, has the DFO allowed out-of-season lobster fishing in southwest Nova Scotia?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:14:24 p.m.
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Madam Chair, under the current government, the science budget for the fisheries side of DFO, which is the side that deals with stock management, has declined by 3%, while the environmental ocean side has seen its science budget increase by 65% Is this why 80% of stocks in the critical zone do not have a recovery plan?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:12:34 p.m.
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Madam Chair, DFO executive-level positions have increased 158%, rising from 65 to 173 during the time of this government. What could possibly justify that excessive growth?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • May/30/22 8:11:27 p.m.
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Madam Chair, who makes the final decisions at DFO?
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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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