Burton Bailey
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- Local businessman
- Political Experience
- Elected Member of Parliament for Red Deer in the 2025 Canadian federal election, former executive assistant to MLA Adriana LaGrange
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Mr. Speaker, Canada should be standing ready to provide our energy both within our borders and to global allies, but a decade of Liberals' “leave it in the ground” policies have hampered our energy industry, divided our country and left Canada as the only G7 country without a strategic oil stockpile. Conservatives have a plan for a strategic energy and mineral reserve to control the distribution [more]
I have a point of order, Chair.
I'm just learning about it, so I'd like you to table everything with the committee, quite simply. Prime Minister I'm not sure who would be best placed to answer this question. The Government of Alberta recently wrote a letter to thehighlighting the continued restrictions on the sale of nicotine pouches to behind pharmacy counters while there's been documented growth in illegal underground [more]
I know Health Canada has smart people working on this, but it is still blatantly inconsistent that cigarettes are sold openly at convenience stores while Health Canada-approved pouches are harder to get. I'm trying to understand this, Doug. Is this something that only people inside the Department of Health can make clear sense of, or is the explanation being shaped by other considerations?
No studies have ever compared two identical communities as this study has. That's what's so unique about it.
The question is for the minister. Thank you.
We've talked about the policy at the committee already. Greg has told us a lot about the silliness behind it. What I'm asking you is this: Now that the provinces are coming to you and saying that 50% of it is being imported illegally, children are buying it and over two million pouches were found in the last bust, are we relooking at this, yes or no?
It's a yes or no.
To the deputy minister, can you table the department's findings and analysis on PrescribeIT with the committee, please?
That's not yes or no, ma'am. I'm asking for a simple yes or no. Are we looking at—
Okay. This is why I asked the question. I was trying to go about it in a nice way, but I saw this CoRE report. Now, as you know, I'm from Red Deer. Red Deer shut down the opioid injection site. They paired it with another site that was still open, and they did this study. Have you gone through this study? Has your department seen it? I brought copies, if anyone would like one. This injection [more]