Mel Arnold
- Born
- 1958
- Political Experience
- Served on Salmon Arm's environmental advisory council for eight years; Appointed to the B.C. government's Species at Risk Task Force in 2010; Elected as a Member of Parliament in 2015
- Notable
- President of the BC Wildlife Federation and Canadian Wildlife Federation for two terms; Elected vice chair of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans in the 45th Canadian Parliament in 2025
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Mel Arnold won with 35,556 votes (52.2%)
Total votes cast: 68,056
fisheries minister Mr. Speaker, Canada's fisheries resources do belong to the people of Canada. Theconfirmed this last October when I asked her at the fisheries committee. However, the minister's department has recklessly published a proposal that would eliminate this principle, and Canadians are paying the price for the uncertainty it has caused. Was the minister's statement at committee more [more]
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present multiple petitions. The first petition is on behalf of Canadians who are deeply concerned about proposed changes to the salmon allocation policy, which would decimate public fishing opportunities for chinook and coho salmon in British Columbia. Changing the common property resource principle risks turning a shared public resource into an exclusive privilege, [more]
C-9 Mr. Speaker, the other five petitions I have today are from residents of Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies. They are concerned about Bill, which was passed in this House but is still going through the Senate. C-9 They call upon the government to reject any amendments to Billthat remove the religious exemption from Canada's hate speech provisions, protect Canadians' constitutional rights to [more]
Mr. Speaker, it sounds like the minister is tired of hearing from Canadians, but Conservatives will not stop raising their voices on their behalf. We recognize that the salmon allocation policy must be aligned with the Ahousaht decision. No one is disputing that in the policy's review, but why is the minister's department floating the proposal to go far beyond, and proposing to sink over 9,000 [more]
Mr. Speaker, the aspect of self-censorship or censorship is really paramount to some of the discussion we are having here. We have seen how the Liberals are shutting down debate or censoring a censorship bill. I do not think there is anything that could be more troubling from a government that has always sought to have ultimate power by censoring the people. That, I believe, is what the [more]
Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in this House as the elected representative for Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies, a part of this country that is known for its significant place and time in Canadian history. Craigellachie in the middle of the Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies is the place where in 1885 the last spike was driven on the Canadian Pacific Railway, uniting this country from [more]
Mr. Speaker, just to clarify for anyone who has tuned in to the recent diatribe back and forth about conduct in the House, I do not believe any of it was directed at me because I had been conducting myself in a manner appropriate to the House. The Speaker's comments, I think, were directed at others. However, it has been so long since the member asked the question, I have forgotten the name of [more]
C-9 Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North did point out that there are many pieces of Billthat are positive. Conservatives offered to split this bill and deal with those components expeditiously, so they could have been passed long ago. It was this ultimate censorship that the government is invoking and then ending the debate on it and not allowing members who represent Canadians across the [more]
You are, though.
Can you answer whether you've made those comparative studies I mentioned?
You don't know.