Jacob Mantle

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, thepromised the best economy in the G7, and he is delivering precisely the opposite: the highest household debt, the highest food inflation and an economy literally shrinking under the weight of his policies. What is particularly concerning is the decline in foreign and domestic investment. C.D. Howe called it “Canada's investment crisis”. Adjusted for growth and [more]

Mr. Speaker, the question was about business investment. I will try again. C.D. Howe says that investment per worker has declined 25% since the Liberals took office. Weak investment yesterday and today means lower wages and lower productivity tomorrow. Two years ago, the Bank of Canada said we had to break glass on this issue. A year later, C.D. Howe said it was a four-alarm emergency, but here [more]

C-9 Mr. Speaker, I am presenting a petition today, again, on Bill. I may sound like a broken record here, but some truths just bear repeating. Petitioners in my community are calling on the government to reverse course and not remove long-standing protections from the Criminal Code that protect people of faith, Canadians of faith, reading sacred texts like the Bible, the Torah and the Quran. The [more]

Minister of Identity and Culture Mr. Speaker, I know the parliamentary secretary has been working on this very closely on the justice committee. However, we heard thesay that the Bible and certain books of the Torah contain categorical hatred and that there should be discretion for prosecutors to press charges. I would ask her very simply whether she agrees with the minister or not.

Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I do not take advice from the former finance minister of Ontario. For a decade before his current job, he watched Ontario's auto sector decline, so it has been two decades of decline with this member. Here is my question to the hon. member: Part of their supposed strategy is exports to non-U.S. destinations. I have seen no evidence from the government that this is a [more]

Given that, were you surprised or was the industry surprised to see no nitrogen, phosphate or anything to do with fertilizer production identified as a major project and referred to the Major Projects Office?

I'll do it. It's the CBSA outages motion. I think it's fairly straightforward. Everybody should have it electronically. It's been on notice for several weeks.

By way of context, I continue to hear that there are issues with the CBSA border systems. I've asked the CBSA to provide me with information about this. They have so far refused to do that, so this is simply asking them to report to the committee on a monthly basis about the details of outages.

Thank you for that. My understanding is that, according to the OECD, it takes about 19 years for a mine to get approved in Canada. Do you think our long approval times are having a detrimental effect on new investment in building mines for phosphate or for the production of nitrogen?

Sure. Whatever you can provide would be fine. Is it fair to say that we've had no new mines open in at least 15 years?

It has been on notice since February 6.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing before the committee today. I have a few questions for you, Mr. Bourque, with respect to fertilizer production in Canada. I want to make sure I understand, first, the main components that go into the production of fertilizer. I understand those are nitrogen, phosphate and potash. Is it correct that Canada currently has no [more]