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House Hansard - 264

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 264 - Dec/7/23
Mr. Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre, GP)
  • Dec/7/23 3:13:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it has been two years since the PM promised an oil and gas cap; today we learned what big oil's 2,000 meetings with the government got it. It got a so-called cap that will allow oil and gas production to go up; carve-outs for big oil to buy its way into compliance using the excess profits it has gouged from Canadians; and a weaker oil and gas target than even the insufficient one that the government had previously set. When will the current government put our children's future ahead of big oil's greed?
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Context: House Hansard - 264 - Dec/7/23
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Dec/7/23 4:03:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member knows that my grandpa's farm was in Asquith, Saskatchewan, and I spent much of my childhood out on that cattle farm, jumping on hay and picking eggs up from the chickens. However, I want to talk about corporate greed in the grocery stores. I worked in the grocery industry for over 20 years; every time a new product comes into a large corporation, the corporation wants hundreds of thousands of dollars from the supplier to get what is called a “listing” in the grocery stores. If it is tofu, cheese or any kind of product that a supplier wants to bring into a grocery store, that supplier is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to do that. Where does the member think that money is being recovered from?
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