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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 - 317 - May/24/24

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

May/24/24 10:49:06 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have heard a lot from the illiterate Liberal economic policy on the other side with regard to this and other things. One thing I find fascinating is that the Liberals take one position but do something else. While they have expressed themselves about the bill, they are allowing foreign replacement workers at the Stellantis plant in Windsor. They are so afraid to prove how they have protected Canadian jobs that they will not release their contracts and prove us wrong. They clearly have not protected these jobs, since we have foreign replacement workers. I have read their contracts. What is the member's view on foreign replacement workers in relation to the bill?

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Context: House Hansard - 256 - Nov/27/23

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

Nov/27/23 3:02:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are spending billions on taxpayer-funded foreign replacement workers on the new EV battery plant in Windsor. Windsor officials report that there will be up to 1,600 foreign replacement workers. One Liberal minister said there was only going to be one. Another minister said there would just be a few. A third said of course there will be foreign workers. The company said there would be 1,600, then 900 and then 1,600. The Liberals cannot get their story straight. Will they come clean, tell the truth and release the contract, so all Canadians can tell what is going on here?

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Context: House Hansard - 254 - Nov/23/23

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

Nov/23/23 2:57:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, they did not answer my first question. Apparently, the Liberals are afraid of the fact that they have decided to bring in foreign replacement workers to Stellantis, while the ministers are ignoring it. Why are they ignoring it? It is because, on the government's own website, they are advertising for Stellantis jobs that say someone does not need to be a Canadian citizen and they do not even need a work permit. The ambassador for South Korea informed everyone in Windsor that 1,600 replacement workers from South Korea are coming. I will ask again, since the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. If the Prime Minister and the government dispute those facts, will they release the contract and prove us wrong? An hon. member: Oh, oh!

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Context: House Hansard - 253 - Nov/22/23

Mr. Rick Perkins

Nov/22/23 4:38:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that the member for Kingston and the Islands does not want us to talk about the fact that the government, once again, is hypocritical and inconsistent in applying its philosophy on replacement workers. It not applying it not only to federal government workers but also to the contracts it signed with Canadian taxpayers. Since the minister referred to replacement workers multiple times within his speech in the context of people doing other people's jobs, talking about replacement workers is what this is about. That is the way the minister introduced it and spoke to it. If I irritate the members for bringing up the fact that they did not have the courage to sign contracts with foreign multinationals that would prohibit foreign replacement workers from being employed in these plants and instead allowed it and did not make sure that taxpayer-funded foreign replacement workers were not part of the contracts they signed, then they have left themselves open to this problem. Do the members of the government know who is disappointed by this? It is all Canadians who believed the government when it said it was protecting Canadian jobs in the unionized auto industry. All the unions that represent the auto workers in southwestern Ontario—

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Context: House Hansard - 253 - Nov/22/23

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

Nov/22/23 4:21:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on the issue of replacement workers, as we know, it has been in the news that the ambassador from South Korea has been talking to officials in Windsor about bringing in up to 1,600 replacement workers at the Stellantis plant in Windsor. In fact, they would be taxpayer-funded foreign replacement workers. I wonder whether the minister would comment on this. Is there anything in the bill that would change the fact that the current government signed the contract that allows taxpayer-funded replacement foreign workers to come into Canada?

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