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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 - 175 - Mar/29/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/29/23 3:11:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for the second year in a row, Liberals have expropriated $5 million a quota from elver harvesters to give to others without compensation. This is against two decades of DFO policy that a willing buyer needs a willing seller. The minister, in committee this week, stated that the expropriation will come mainly from harvesters who have not used their quota, yet her department has said it will come equally from all licence holders. Who was right? Was it the minister, or her officials?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:26:21 p.m.
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Madam Chair, Chief Justice McLachlin stated in the Stephen Marshall case that the right to hunt, fish and gather is limited to the things that first nations hunted, fished and gathered in 1761 when the treaty was signed. Since the minister did not know that, can the minister explain to me why the minister decided to expropriate 14% of the commercial elver quota—
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:15:49 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I would like to ask the minister when this decision will be made with regard to herring quota, since the season is about to start.
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/30/22 8:15:05 p.m.
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Madam Chair, 80% without a plan is not a strong performance. Is the minister going to cut the southwest Nova Scotia herring quota by 63%?
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