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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 - 240 - Oct/26/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Oct/26/23 1:49:00 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Mr. Speaker, one of my colleagues, in response to that, asked, “What year?” That is funny. Yes, absolutely, the principle of the bill originally was an improvement of the current Investment Canada Act. We have improved it dramatically over what the government presented, so obviously we will be voting for the amendments we made to improve the bill. We will have a robust debate at both report stage and third reading to give members a chance to speak about this important strategic issue for Canada. I hope government members will support my amendment today to ensure that we return to cabinet decision-making processes.
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Context: House Hansard - 153 - Feb/3/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Feb/3/23 10:54:25 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Madam Speaker, I think I made it fairly clear that we will be voting for Bill C-34 at second reading. We want to see a number of improvements in the bill. We are disappointed it has taken eight years to get this bill to Parliament and that a lot of the decisions the government made and let go in the acquisition of many of our assets by Chinese state-owned enterprises probably would not have happened if the amendments Conservatives seek in this bill were in place and had been in place earlier on in the government's tenure. There would not have been the flexibility of previous industry ministers under the Liberal government to ignore the public security threat.
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