Mel Arnold

Mr. Speaker, I rise to present the official opposition's dissenting opinion for the seventh report of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Ocean report, entitled “Review of the Fisheries Act: policy and legislative considerations and recommendations”. Conservatives of the official opposition were motivated to submit this dissenting report to ensure that Canadians are provided the whole story [more]

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of 38 residents of Kamloops. The petitioners are Canadians who are concerned about the changing climate and the results of the droughts, wildfires and floods caused by a warming planet. They call on the Government of Canada, for the love of our children and grandchildren, to honour and ensure Canada's 2030 and 2035 emissions targets and to [more]

Mr. Speaker, as poppies bloom on lapels across the nation, we are reminded of the people who have sacrificed everything so that we can live free. From the Boer War in 1899 through the first and second world wars, the Korean War, the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan, and in peacetime, Canada's women and men in uniform have given everything and carried immense burdens for all of us. Recent [more]

Mr. Speaker, months ago, Food Banks Canada reported that food bank demand reached 2.3 million visits in March. Liberal inflation has only made things worse. In Salmon Arm, my hometown, the food bank now serves 500 clients per month. Many are families, meaning the number could be 7% to 10% of a small city relying on the food bank. Will the government adopt our Conservative plan to lower the cost [more]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the member for Provencher, if he could, to further explain how some of those costs on the farms and at the farm gates are becoming almost insurmountable for some of those farmers who are working their hardest to put food on Canadian dinner plates, whether it be grains, beef or other products. How is this increased cost in fuel, which we are seeing impact things [more]

Mr. Speaker, I would absolutely love to respond to what is happening in the real world. The real world is here in Canada, where Canadians have been kneecapped by the Liberal government for 11 years. The member talked about the investment that is happening right now, the record investment. That record investment could have happened more than 10 years ago had the Liberal government believed in the [more]

Mr. Speaker, that is an admirable question. I will turn that right back at him and ask why Liberal members voted against the measures that we as Conservatives put forward through motions in this House. They voted against them months ago, months before the Liberals even brought this bill to the table. Why?

Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned in my speech, I have visited food banks that are seeing their previous volunteers now coming in for assistance. I am seeing seniors who cannot afford to live in a rental unit for the full month. They are living in the rental unit for three weeks and living in their car for a week because they cannot afford the fourth week of rent. Under the devastating impacts of the [more]