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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 - 217 - Jun/20/23

Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)

Jun/20/23 9:19:25 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-42

Madam Speaker, I had the honour to serve with the member on the committee that briefly looked at this bill. One of the most important proposed amendments the government rejected was one that would have taken the level of reporting of who owns what percentage of shares down from 25%, meaning anyone who has 25% or more has to be recorded, down to 10%, and 10% of course is what is used for making public disclosure by the Ontario Securities Commission. When one acquires shares in a company, they have to publicly disclose if they have 10% or more. I would like the member to comment on what value that would have brought and how disappointing it was for us that the government did not consider it.

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Context: House Hansard - 85 - Jun/9/22

Mr. Rick Perkins

Jun/9/22 10:54:16 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-21

Madam Speaker, the member mentioned a number of tragic incidents throughout Canada, the most recent of which was in Nova Scotia in Portapique. Those crimes were committed with illegal firearms smuggled across the U.S. border, not with legal handguns. I am wondering, given this initiative, what percentage of crime in large cities with handguns will be reduced by this bill.

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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22

Mr. Rick Perkins

May/30/22 8:22:05 p.m.
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Madam Chair, Nova Scotia first nations now hold more than 10% of all licences but represent only 2.9% of the population. What percentage of licences need to be held by first nations to satisfy the Marshall decision?

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Context: House Hansard - 74 - May/18/22

Mr. Rick Perkins

May/18/22 5:53:56 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-14

Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague and note that his parliamentary assistant is from my riding, so I know he has a great attachment to it, even with family. With regard to protecting proportions, as I went through in my speech, we see that Nova Scotia has dropped from 21 to 11 seats over the course of Confederation. If we had frozen in time Nova Scotia's proportion of seats at that, I think there would be a lot of members here today who would think that was unfair relative to the way the population has grown. I do not think it is fair to set a percentage for any particular province on the number of seats it should have that would bind us totally in the future, because we see, over 100 years, the way the population shifts. We try to reflect that as best we can. We have as close as possible the quality of vote while still reflecting the fact that we see now, and will see in the next 100 years, more demographic shifts that will change the weight or influence. It would overweight Nova Scotia's seats if we were still at 21 and Quebec, for example, was at 78.

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