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Ben Lobb

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Huron—Bruce
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 66%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $120,348.62

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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Ben Lobb
  • May/19/22 10:11:14 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, that is fine. She also mentioned tax. There is not $40 billion worth of tax on a $14-billion project, unless taxes are really being hiked in the future. Another one is the offshore oceanic vessel. The original price tag was $100 million, and now it is $1 billion. How do we have a ten bagger on a project? That seems like mismanagement. The other question is this: Will she open the books to the Parliamentary Budget Officer so he can go through them? He had to use U.S. numbers to come to his conclusion of $77 billion.
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Ben Lobb
  • May/19/22 10:10:31 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, I have no question at all about the economic benefits. I have no question about how hard the workers work in all the shipyards. The same work is getting done around the world using the same steel and the same technology, yet Canada still pays four to five times the amount. Will the minister look into this and find out how this can be?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Ben Lobb
  • May/19/22 10:09:27 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, he was the project manager from 2007 to 2010 for AOPS, so I think he is very well informed. The surface combatant went from $14 billion to $26 billion to $56 billion. The Parliamentary Budget Officer says it could be $77 billion. At what point does the minister say we have got to slow down here and we need to go line by line to understand how this has quadrupled or gone up even more?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Ben Lobb (Huron—Bruce, CPC)
  • May/19/22 10:08:05 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, I am going to share my time with the member for Louis-Saint-Laurent. I thank the minister for her work tonight. It is quite a feat to put in all the time and to answer all the questions, and I thank her for that. Andrew Kendrick, a naval architect with 40 years' experience, appeared before committee. His statement was that it costs three to five times the world price and two to four times longer to deliver ships in Canada versus the rest of the world. Does the minister have any comment on that? Has she investigated and verified this to be true, or does she feel we are in line with world price and world delivery?
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