Sherry Romanado
- Born
- April 12, 1974
- Career
- School administrator, public relations officer
- Political Experience
- First elected to the House of Commons in 2015, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence (January 30, 2017 – August 30, 2018), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Seniors (August 31, 2018), chair of the Industry, Science and Technology committee, Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
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Sherry Romanado won with 25,138 votes (49.4%)
Total votes cast: 50,900
Mr. Speaker, I have good news for Canadians today. The Secretary General of NATO has confirmed that Canada has met NATO's target of 2% of GDP for military spending. This historic investment confirms that we are doing our fair share, both at home on the continent and within the alliance. Today, as every day, NATO allies know they can count on Canada.
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I'm fine with that, but with respect to all blanket in camera meetings, I'm not quite sure. It would depend on the subject.
In terms of this, you mentioned in your opening remarks—I want to make sure I say it correctly—that not only are we part of the supply chain, we are the supply chain, because we have these critical minerals and the capacity to produce and to export. NATO has published a list of 12 critical raw materials for defence from the defence industrial planning perspective; how is the Department of [more]
In that regard, if we have access to the waste or these by-products from our mining, it is much cheaper to be producing and refining those by-products than trying to identify additional deposits of critical minerals. Is that correct?
Thank you, Chair. Through you, I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here this morning. I'll start with Ms. Hadwen. Ms. Chan mentioned the current conflict in the Middle East, so I'm going to focus a bit on that. In light of the current conflict and the disruption to global energy flows, what does this moment tell the Department of National Defence about the importance of resilient [more]
On that note, last week I was visiting Reaction Dynamics, which is in Longueuil. It's one of the companies that received some of the funding. It's a great company. My next question will be for Ms. Chan. We often focus on primary extraction, but resilience also means redundancy. How important is reprocessing and recovery from by-products and waste streams, especially for rare earths and other [more]
I want to know what the ask is. Is it for them to stay as a part of this...?