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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 - 181 - Apr/20/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Apr/20/23 1:03:38 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I enjoy sitting on the industry committee with the member. We are doing good, collegial work together on it. On that particular issue, I absolutely agree. Part of the challenge of what happened when the government created the strategic investment fund, or SIF, program is that it collapsed other tax credits for specific industries to help with the very issue the member is talking about. That issue is that the government lost the sectoral focus in how to support the aerospace industry on issues like greening the engines and the fuel usage of aircraft in Canada. This is another thing the government has done to hurt the aerospace industry.
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Context: House Hansard - 181 - Apr/20/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Apr/20/23 1:02:28 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, what the Conservative Party is against is taxes that kill jobs and kill industry, which is the habit of the government. I just went through a speech saying that over 750 jobs had already been lost in the aerospace and jet-manufacturing industries because of the government. If that is support for an industry, I do not want support for anything I do in the future.
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Context: House Hansard - 156 - Feb/8/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Feb/8/23 5:45:16 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Madam Speaker, in response to the member for Winnipeg North, I will add food as one of the industries that should be on the list. However, my question is around the issue of assets. The Investment Canada Act focuses on companies, but more and more, we are seeing Canadian companies selling their strategic assets, sometimes to countries that are not favourable to us. A company could remain Canadian but sell off a mine; a technology; or in our intangible asset world, even data. Could the member speak to the issue that, if the bill goes to committee, which I believe it will, we should be looking at it in terms of the areas of assets in addition to just companies?
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