Dan Mazier
- Career
- President of Keystone Agricultural Producers
- Political Experience
- Elected to House of Commons in 2019
- Notable
- Deputy Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change; Introduced Bill C-299 (An Act to Amend the Telecommunications Act)
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Business & Financial Interests
Dan Mazier has a background in both agriculture and telecommunications. Before being elected to Parliament, he owned and operated a grain farm in Justice, Manitoba. He was also heavily involved in agricultural advocacy, serving as the president of Keystone Agricultural Producers, which is Manitoba's largest general farm lobby organization. He also served as a vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. In addition to farming, Mazier reportedly founded and operated a telecommunications company focused on providing high-speed internet services to rural communities in western Manitoba. This experience has informed his work in Parliament, where he has focused on issues related to rural connectivity.
Public Controversies
Dan Mazier sponsored a private member's bill, Bill C-288, which proposed changes to the Telecommunications Act. The bill faced criticism from digital rights organizations and academics who argued that its provisions could weaken net neutrality in Canada. Opponents suggested the bill could allow internet service providers to block or slow down access to websites accused of copyright infringement without sufficient oversight. Mazier and his supporters defended the bill as a necessary tool to protect Canadian creators from online piracy.
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Madam Speaker, on April 28, the health committee held an emergency meeting on the Liberals' $300-million PrescribeIT program failure. During that meeting, the parliamentary secretary for health moved a motion to shut off the committee cameras. She never explained why. I will ask her directly. Why did she shut off the cameras?
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Liberal House leader defended luxury health benefits for asylum claimants whom his own government rejected, stating they are “the most vulnerable people on...earth”. Really? How about William Imona-Russel, the rejected asylum claimant who raped two women and murdered a 20-year-old girl while still in Canada? Under the Liberals, criminals like him remain eligible for
Madam Speaker, the member did not answer my question. Canadians want to know why the Liberal parliamentary secretary for health turned off the cameras at the health committee during an emergency meeting on the $300-million PrescribeIT program failure. It is a very simple question. Why did she vote to turn off the committee cameras?
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member asked a question around groceries and why we do not support, basically, subsidies for Canadians. The Liberal government is already taking the money away from them. I wonder if the hon. member could explain the whole value chain and how much the clean fuel standard costs our entire supply chain when it comes to food.
Mr. Speaker, I am really glad that the hon. member brought up the Parliamentary Budget Officer, because she just released a damning report revealing that nearly 74,000 rejected asylum claimants remain eligible for luxury health care benefits under the Liberals' interim federal health program. This includes rejected asylum claimants who are listed as wanted for failing to show up at their removal
S-233 Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support Bill, which is a bill that should not be controversial. It should not be controversial to say that people who care for us deserve to be protected. It should not be controversial to say that a nurse should not be punched, bitten, spat on, sexually assaulted or threatened while doing their job. It should not be controversial to say that when someone
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals gave Canada Health Infoway $300 million for PrescribeIT, a program that they promised would replace fax machines for prescription drugs. Instead, less than 5% of the prescriptions went through the program, and PrescribeIT is now being quietly shut down with no results. Canadians still do not know where their money went. Yesterday at the health committee, the chair of
Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to be at the late show to follow up on some questions that need to be answered. parliamentary secretary for health Last week, Conservatives called an emergency meeting of the health committee to investigate the $300 million the Liberals wasted on PrescribeIT. When we moved a motion to call on the Auditor General to investigate the program, the Liberalmoved a
Mr. Speaker, I am sort of confused, because yesterday at the health committee, the board chair of Health Infoway actually said that the program was a success, yet the Liberal government has been shutting it down. However, it still managed to spend $300 million and was still sending fax messages after 10 years. parliamentary secretary for health I will go back to my original question: Why did
Mr. Speaker, the bill is about how much money the Liberals have actually wasted here. The PrescribeIT program is a blinding example, and it is absolutely a waste of $300 million. Canada Health Infoway is a so-called non-profit organization funded by the federal Minister of Health. For nearly a decade, the Liberals poured money into a program called “PrescribeIT”. They promised PrescribeIT would