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House Hansard - 324

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 4, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 324 - Jun/4/24
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/4/24 10:16:03 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am totally on side with the motion, but it is a matter of the what and the how. What we want to do is see food prices moderate or come down. With respect to how, though, I want to talk about the price cap and ask my hon. friend a question. The free market response to a price cap quite often ends up being rationing. What would the response be if big grocery decided that we were forcing them to sell milk, eggs, butter, etcetera at a low price, so they were not going to make a whole bunch of those things available to people? Are there thoughts, or could there be thoughts, on how to deal with that issue?
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Context: House Hansard - 324 - Jun/4/24
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/4/24 10:35:11 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, we should do something pre-emptive here, because when it is time for the Conservative Party to speak on this, I anticipate an attack on supply management. We have seen that from some Conservatives. We have seen it from Conservative media commentaries. Does the NDP support supply management and will it rebuff any attempt to blame high food prices on this measure?
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Context: House Hansard - 324 - Jun/4/24
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/4/24 11:18:54 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I have been on the fisheries committee since 2015, and we have just witnessed a huge run of red herring. I think there should be a harvest, actually. Is the member who just spoke comfortable with the fact that big grocery racked up $6 billion in profits last year? Was it too much, not enough or just right? What does he think?
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Context: House Hansard - 324 - Jun/4/24
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/4/24 12:17:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I did an analysis, following publicly available data from credible sources. It said that the impact of the carbon tax on a loaf of bread in a jurisdiction where the federal plan applies is 0.2¢ a loaf. With that, I will ask the hon. member whether the Conservatives need to be called out on the narrative they continue to spin, which is that somehow the carbon tax is responsible for high food prices and maybe the corporate profits.
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Context: House Hansard - 324 - Jun/4/24
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/4/24 1:20:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, earlier today, we heard our Conservative friends talk about the carbon tax, manufacturers making obscene profits on the backs of Canadians, and the big grocery chains. If that was the case, if that was the true cause of high food prices, would the grocery chain profits not have been much lower, if in fact their input costs had been jacked up so high? How does the member assess the Conservative message to Canadians on this issue?
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Context: House Hansard - 324 - Jun/4/24
Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)
  • Jun/4/24 2:03:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as we consider the relationship between Canada and China, I am rising today to mark the 35th anniversary of the massacre of those who joined the movement for democracy in China in Tiananmen Square. In response to that movement, which spread to 400 cities and, according to observers, caused deep divisions within the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the decision was made on June 2, 1989, to send in the military to put an end to the protest. Nobody knows the cost in terms of the lives taken on June 4 or in what had been a gradual shift to a more liberal society for China, but the level of suppression ramped up significantly. Today, one can be arrested anywhere in China or in Hong Kong if one dares to comment on or to observe this anniversary. Democracy is a resilient force, and thousands of Chinese diaspora here in Canada and around the world are speaking up today on behalf of the Chinese people who must mark the day and harbour hopes for the future in silence.
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