Jeff Kibble

Mr. Speaker, Pacific salmon are a public resource owned by all Canadians, not something for the Liberal government to eliminate behind closed doors. Minister of Fisheries For generations, salmon have been managed as a common property resource for the collective benefit of all Canadians, yet the Liberal government is now considering removing that principle from the salmon allocation policy. [more]

Mr. Speaker, the recreational fishing industry is facing a review of the salmon allocation policy that could destroy the industry and strip away Canada's historic principle of common property resource access. The recreational fishing industry supports over 9,000 jobs, generates $600 million in direct income and contributes over $1.2 billion in GDP in British Columbia. Will the minister commit [more]

Mr. Speaker, I request that we pass this bill on division.

Mr. Speaker, I am humbled to stand here and represent the great people of Cowichan—Malahat—Langford on Vancouver Island, and I continue to listen to and bring their voices forward here to Ottawa as their member of Parliament. C-235 One of the biggest issues I hear about is the impact of crime on our community from people who are just trying to focus on the high cost of living and on raising [more]

We do have a mine, in fact, at Beaver Brook in Newfoundland. Is that correct?

I'll share with you that it's China Minmetals, which is a Chinese state-owned company. They've decided to shutter it. Now we don't produce this. How do we protect Canadian resources that are being controlled and leveraged against us? We're saying, hey, we want to leverage these critical minerals. We have this critical mineral, but we don't produce any. We've let a foreign state company shutter [more]

Again, it sounds as though—

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much to our witnesses for being here. We've heard some pretty good expressions and terms: “unique position”, “leadership in NATO”, “importance of supply chains”, “concrete steps” and “addressing vulnerabilities”. A lot of these statements, from what I'm hearing, are forward-looking plans or intentions for what we're going to do, but I'd like to look at some [more]

Okay, we have an agreement, so we have a stockpile of paper.

Do we have stockpiles of any of these things? I'm not talking about intentions. Do we have anything right now?

Thank you for your statement, Ms. Pekarik. I appreciated it. I wanted to ask you a quick question. You talked about critical and strategic minerals sort of interchangeably. Would you consider gold or fuel minerals and strategic or critical minerals or both?