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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 - 264 - Dec/7/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Dec/7/23 3:08:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, China's economic cold war of taking over strategic industries in Canada has claimed another victim. After eight years, the NDP-Liberal government has turned a blind eye to this national security threat. First, China got the Prime Minister to fast-track its acquisition of Neo Lithium and three other lithium companies. Now China is trying to buy Canada's only rare earth mining company, Vital Metals. China will take all the product to China, leaving Canadian firms without a supply. Will the Prime Minister invoke the Investment Canada Act now, review this deal and protect Canadian resources?
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Context: House Hansard - 163 - Feb/17/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Feb/17/23 10:26:34 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to my colleague's excellent speech. In fact, the last two speeches have been superb speeches on Bill C-34. The member raised an issue around recommendation 1 from the industry committee report on state-owned enterprises. I would like to ask him something along a similar vein. The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry was at the House of Commons industry committee this week. I asked him about the acquisition of the Tanco lithium mine in Manitoba, the only lithium-producing mine in Canada, by the Chinese government in 2015, and why he had not included that in his divestiture request of Chinese state-owned enterprises a few months ago. He said that he could not do it, that he could not go back far enough. There is nothing in this bill that will allow, when a regime changes, for the minister to go back and revisit a transaction when a regime becomes less co-operative as part of the world framework. I wonder if the member could comment on whether or not there should be changes to the bill to allow for that kind of review to go back further.
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Context: House Hansard - 154 - Feb/6/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Feb/6/23 12:12:07 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Madam Speaker, the government for which the member was in cabinet actually approved two acquisitions. One was Hytera acquiring Norsat, and the other was a Chinese state-owned enterprise acquiring a mining entity that has 65% of Canada's lithium production. The government approved those without a national security review. There is nothing in this bill that would change that, especially if the minister does not have to go to cabinet. I would like the member's views on that.
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