Michael Kram

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to present a petition today on behalf of residents of Regina and southern Saskatchewan who are concerned about rising incidents of home invasions and the risks they pose to the residents of those properties. They also point to incidents of homeowners being criminally charged after defending themselves and their families from criminals who had [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to present petition e-7622 on behalf of concerned members of the Pakistani Canadian community. Minister of Foreign Affairs Signers of the petition are disturbed by the Liberal government's decision to have themeet with the Pakistani Minister of Interior while visiting Islamabad last summer. This individual has been known to engage in targeted [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to present a petition today on behalf of mothers and fathers in Regina and southern Saskatchewan who are concerned about the rising price of baby formula. The price of Similac has doubled in the last two years. That represents an expense of approximately $400 per month for mothers who are unable to breastfeed. The petitioners call for a [more]

transport minister Mr. Speaker, for decades, Canada's airports have been operated by non-profit airport authorities, with local governance and real accountability. Recently, theannounced his intention to hand over control of Canada's major airports to foreign-owned, for-profit corporations. Even worse, the minister would not say whether this decision would lead to higher costs. Canadians already [more]

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to present a petition on behalf of concerned taxpayers and members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in Regina and southern Saskatchewan. Canada Post has lost hundreds of millions of dollars per year for many years and has recently had to seek billions of dollars in loans just to remain solvent. Despite these financial losses, the Crown [more]

C-35 Okay, so we can anticipate that automobile parts and EVs from these regions of China probably should be included in the list in Bill. Is that a fair statement?

If the U.S. Department of Labor has found that many automobiles, electric vehicles and auto parts made in China are used with forced and child labour, can you give us some insight into the enforcement mechanism? Do we have inspectors who go to China to look at the assembly lines? How does that work?

C-35 Okay, but if we are, let's suspend disbelief for a minute and assume that the U.S. Department of Labor study is correct and that these parts and these imports do have to be stopped. We're going to stop these Chinese EVs as soon as Billis up and running and in force then. What does that look like, and what does that mean with the canola tariffs that the Chinese recently lifted?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to circle back to the witnesses about the Chinese EV imports. Just a couple of weeks ago, in an article with the headline “Chinese-made electric vehicles start arriving in Canada”, CBC reported, “Nearly 3,000 Chinese-manufactured EVs landed in the country last month.” I'm told that's all based on data from Global Affairs Canada. What guarantees do we have [more]

Would you say that it's more than a little bit irresponsible for the government to have let in these 3,000 EVs from China without the ability to ensure at every step of the way that the supply chains do not have forced labour or child labour?

I have a report here from the U.S. Department of Labor from September 2024. I'd like to read a quote from that report: In addition to manufacturing aluminum automotive parts, China processes a large percentage of other key inputs in the automotive industry. For example, China processes iron into steel, lithium and cobalt into battery-grade materials, and bauxite into aluminum. The U.S. [more]