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Conservative MP for Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman (Manitoba)

Won his last election, in 2021, with 57% of the vote.

Three weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, Conservatives on the defence committee are submitting dissenting reports and opinions for both of the reports from the committee. As we learned at the …

Voted No on Vote #847 on Bill C-69 Implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 16, 2024

Voted Yes on Vote #848 on Bill C-65 Amend the Canada Elections

Voted No on Vote #849 on Bill C-65 Amend the Canada Elections

Voted Yes on Vote #850 Private Members' Business M-109 (Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (amendments to the Standing …

Voted Yes on Vote #851 on Bill C-323 Amend the Excise Tax Act (mental health services)

Spoke in the House on Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 Madam Speaker, I am hearing impaired and have incredible difficulty listening to the member for Winnipeg North. I would ask that you show some compassion and …

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Rising Domestic Operational Deployments and Challenges for the Canadian Armed Forces and … Thank you. I think that would explain why Minister Joly said this is “news to me” and would have to look into it when she was …

Spoke in the House on Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to stand today and talk on Bill C-69, the budget implementation act, or as I prefer to call it, “the economic …

Spoke in the House on Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the Royal Canadian Navy's Halifax-class frigates: (a) what is the number of (i) sea days, (ii) non-sea days, that each frigate has had …

Spoke in the House on Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs told CBC News, last week, that it was news to her that Russian warships were docked alongside one of …

A month ago

Spoke in the House on Questions on the Order Paper Mr. Speaker, with respect to the above-noted question, what follows is the response from the CRA as of April 29, 2024, that is, the date of …

Spoke at the Procedure and House Affairs committee on Question of Privilege Related to Cyber Attacks Targeting Members of Parliament Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, colleagues. I am also one of the 18 members of Parliament and senators who are members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance …

Spoke in the House on National Defence Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the government has given hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to their lobbyist friends. The Department of National Defence handed …

Spoke in the House on 80th Anniversary of D-Day Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties and if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: That the House …

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Review of the Impact of Canada’s Procurement Process on the Canadian Armed … Mr. Chair, I want to move to the following motion, which I gave notice of in writing: Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted …

Two months ago

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Communications Security Establishment, Votes 1, 5, … Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I know a number of you are either retiring or moving on. I want to thank you all for …

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Transparency within the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces ... It's an opinion I share and one I've articulated many times over the years that I've been on this committee. Richard Shimooka, who was at this ...

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Space Defence The problem with that is that, whenever the government has a need-to-know basis, they always determine that you don't need to know. That's the easy way ...

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Transparency within the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces Okay. That's one of the recommendations we should be looking at. The other part of that is this: You mentioned people wanting to get access to ...

Three months ago

Spoke at the National Defence committee on Space Defence I appreciate that. My understanding is that in one of those tests in particular, over a third of the satellites in orbit at that time were ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-324 An Act to amend the Special Economic Measures Act

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-296 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (increasing parole ineligibility)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-267 An Act to provide for the taking of restrictive measures in respect of foreign nationals responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and to make related amendments to the Special Economic Measures Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-266 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (increasing parole ineligibility)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-478 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (increasing parole ineligibility)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-456 An Act to amend the Excise Act, 2001 (spirits)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-386 An Act to amend the Radiation Emitting Devices Act (tanning equipment) and to warn Canadians of the cancer risks of using tanning equipment