David Bexte

Mr. Speaker, harvest is here, right now, this very moment. Combines, tractors and grain trucks are starting up and pulling into the field. It is go time. Hopes and plans come to the test. Will the weather hold? Will there be a breakdown? What will the prices be? Everything is on the line. It is supposed to be a payday, not a pay more day. Diesel prices are at near record levels in Canada. [more]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are out of touch. They are all talk and no results. Canadian farmers are already paying 32¢ a litre more for diesel than Americans are. Now potential restrictions to U.S. exports threaten to drive costs even higher. Conservatives are calling for an immediate action plan for relief on diesel prices; a cut to all federal taxes; a secure, reliable Canadian supply; and the [more]

I appreciate that, but that again is the nature of an unintended consequence. We haven't accounted for that. We haven't looked at that specifically to see how we're going to attend to it. I guess it comes down to another question about how you are going to measure success. Are there any particular metrics on current mobility versus new mobility and what happens if we don't reach that target?

If this doesn't work or achieve any measurable success, or if the conflicts that arise out of it interprovincially are insurmountable, then what? What are the consequences?

I'll cede my time to Mr. Genuis.

Thank you, Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to sub in today on the HUMA committee. I look forward to an interesting discussion on this private member's bill. Congratulations, MP Bains, for presenting a bill. That is a milestone in any parliament. I do have questions, though. Regardless of the nobility or the objectivity of the work, I'm very concerned about accountability and unintended [more]

We're diverting from the thrust of the question, which is measurability. You have a technical background. I assume you can appreciate the notion that you can't improve what you don't measure. This is an axiom in engineering, science and other areas of applied research. What are we going to measure to evaluate the success of this legislation? What are we going to measure to say that our efforts [more]

Fair enough. I'll cede my time, Chair. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, that was a fantastic question from my esteemed colleague from the biggest riding in northern Alberta. As long as there is common sense, this is what Conservatives have been asking for forever: tax relief and affordability for Canadians. If the proposed legislation from the government makes sense, then it is easy to support, but if it is loaded up with poison pills, if it is [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, it is an example of hypocrisy, the way I see it. This is, I think, a good bill. It would give affordability for Canadians, but it is short-term. If it is so good now, why was it not good six months ago? Why was it not good a year ago? Why was it not good five years ago, when these measures and taxes on fuel and energy were raised and raised again? It was the currentwho [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the House to speak on behalf of the people of Bow River. I spent my summer, like most of us, back in the riding. It was such a joy visiting with my neighbours, visiting with colleagues and experiencing the world of agriculture: being on the farm, being on a tractor and watching the combine start up in the fall. It is a time of life and a time of the [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, that is a very interesting question from the member across the way. By and large, the constituents in my riding do not think that the currentis really helping them with affordability. They look at the history of the Liberal government over the past 11-plus years, and they see typical, standard Liberal dogma driving the narrative. This is not good. The current Prime [more]

Thank you. I'm trying to sell a boat here, so I'm satisfied. Some hon. members: Oh, oh! David Bexte: I have a boat to sell. It's not a bridge. It's a boat, and I'd like to sell it to you.

For clarity, if you'd like to discuss that, I'm more than happy to. No, I'm not saying that people lie. I'm saying that people make mistakes and people are motivated by different things—

I'm looking at this more from the perspective of the seller's dispensing of their liability. How do they trust that this transaction is done? It looks to me like there is no veracity in that at all. The attestation can literally be, “Yes, I believe it.” They attest to the judge that they believed at the time the buyer had the resources to do this. It doesn't matter what the truth of the matter [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. Truthfully, most of my questions are because I'm a terrestrial MP. I know nothing about marine life and nothing about boats. Listening to this exchange and this discussion, the comparisons to automobile sales, for example, are extraordinary in how differently these transactions are treated. They're just night and day. They're completely different. What strikes me the [more]

Do you see the possibility that this gets treated, in practice, with a lack of the seriousness it deserves without some verification process, some trust process or some very definitive “this is clear and done” process? It's not prescriptive—I get it—and that's normally a good thing, but at some point, some prescription is required. With automobile transfers, the bill of sale and the attestation [more]

Well, they do lie, but that's not what I'm saying. If we want to get into people and fraud and all the things that can come into this....

I have so many questions.