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Dave Epp

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
Conservative

Chatham-Kent—Leamington
Ontario
Voting Attendance: 65%
Expenses Last Quarter: $153,134.70

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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24

Apr/30/24 11:28:31 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am a Conservative. I believe the market mechanism is the most efficient way of transferring the values of goods and services, but markets only work when there is a balance of power. I come from the agriculture sector, but that accounts for a whole host of sectors. The best way to have proper levels of profit, which drive further innovation, is having a functioning market system that incents competition. Sometimes we do not have that in this country, given our size. We have oligopolies, oligopsonies and monopolies, and I will not get into all the rest of it. However, there are structures needed to keep a functioning market going. We need to do more work in some areas on that in the country, particularly in the sector I come from, which is agriculture and food.

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Context: House Hansard - 285 - Feb/26/24

Mr. Dave Epp

Feb/26/24 5:16:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I could go into my stump speech about how resolution mechanisms are different in different situations. I am very familiar with that in the ag situation, where different marketing mechanisms are used in different sectors based upon four factors. I will not get into all of them, but one set of circumstances does not lead itself to the same outcome when it comes to dispute resolution.

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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23

Mr. Dave Epp (Chatham-Kent—Leamington, CPC)

Jun/8/23 11:47:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague mentioned the ports that are close to our export markets. There are five ports in Canada, namely Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Saint John, Halifax and Montreal, that are licensed to take containers in. Recently, a number of us in Ontario toured a port in Picton where the owners have applied to be licensed to receive containers because it is closest to the city of Toronto, which is the largest market for our incoming containers. The owners have asked for no federal money. All they need is a licence. They are willing to pay for any CBSA costs required to clear containers, yet they are unable to achieve a licence. Bringing containers in closer to the city before moving from ship to rail reduces emissions and reduces transportation costs. Would my colleague not agree that this would be a logical, environmentally sound reason to offer a sixth port closest to our biggest market for incoming containers?

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Context: House Hansard - 188 - May/1/23

Mr. Dave Epp

May/1/23 1:41:15 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-47

Mr. Speaker, for a moment, I thought my hon. colleague from Hamilton Centre was calling for more competition. With that, I can agree, absolutely. Unregulated capitalism is not what we have and it is not what we are advocating. A market system works, and this my soap box and I wish I had more time. I will do 10 minutes on it at some point. A market system works when there is a balance of power across the negotiating table and across the marketplace table. I heard him call for more competition in some sectors, and I agree.

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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22

Mr. Dave Epp

Nov/18/22 10:13:05 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, on the surface, that would seem like a plausible argument. What I did not hear was the books of our oil and gas companies being brought to the fore in the six years previous due to the policies of the Liberal government. Record profits are not only being incurred in different parts of the country; that is how a market works. Is there a role for the government to step in there? That is what the House is to decide.

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