Pat Kelly
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Business & Financial Interests
Before entering federal politics, Pat Kelly worked in the real estate industry for over two decades. He was a real estate broker and reportedly owned his own brokerage firm. Public disclosures filed with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner show that he has held various investments, including publicly traded securities in financial and energy companies.
Key Relationships & Connections
Within the Conservative Party, Pat Kelly has served in roles that connect him to party leadership. Under former leader Erin O'Toole, he was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Small Business and Western Economic Diversification. He has also been a long-serving member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, where he has worked on economic policy alongside MPs from different parties.
Public Controversies
In 2016, Pat Kelly was the subject of media reports regarding his expense claims. It was reported that he claimed thousands of dollars in per diems for meals and other expenses while in Ottawa, even though he owned a home in the city. In response to the reports, Kelly stated that the claims were permitted under the rules for Members of Parliament and were intended to help cover the costs of maintaining a second residence required for his work.
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Pat Kelly won with 39,971 votes (58.8%)
Total votes cast: 67,935
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Madam Speaker, Canadians have much to be thankful for in our beloved country, but many Canadians are struggling with the high cost of food. Dalhousie University reports that turkey is up 10% from last Thanksgiving, which of course was up from the year before, because 11 years of Liberal taxes, spending, deficits and declining economic productivity have created a homegrown Canadian affordability
Mr. Speaker, the member, at the beginning and at the end of his speech, denied a connection between the first part and second part of the motion. He says that the motion could have proposed concrete solutions. We have proposed other concrete solutions, including earlier this week, that they voted against. The first thing toward having a solution is to admit there is a problem. In this motion, we
Mr. Speaker, the member identified many of the challenges and problems within the Canadian economy, one being a lack of investment in basic infrastructure across the country. I wonder if he would remind Canadians which party has been in government for the last 11 years and presided over this deficit in infrastructure despite the promises it made in each of its four elections.
Mr. Speaker, he must be really upset with the government that has been in power for the last 11 years. Canadians need results. Hundreds of projects and their applications are waiting for federal approval because the government spent the last 11 years piling on red tape and bad laws that kill high-paying jobs. Last year, the Liberals asked Parliament for extraordinary powers to exempt major
Mr. Speaker, if the United States wants to raise costs on its businesses, we must respond by lowering them on ours so that we can out-compete them, not out-tax them. Conservatives believe in the ingenuity of Canadian businesses to create, invent, produce, expand and hire Canadians, but businesses need the Liberal government to repeal its antidevelopment laws, its capital gains taxes on
Mr. Speaker, that is about right. Sooner or later, the government is going to be confronted with the fact that there is a difference between saying something and doing something. What we have seen from the government is a lot of speeches, announcements, photo ops and words, but not so many shovels in the ground.
C-39 Mr. Speaker, it is good to be back in the House of Commons debating legislation. That is what we are elected to do. That is what we are in the House for. It is good to be here and talking about Bill. The Liberals call it the building Canada strong act, which rings similar to a similar bill we dealt with about a year ago. I will maybe have time to come back to that, but I will start by saying
Mr. Speaker, there is a lot to unpack there. The Liberals never talk about the investment outflows when they talk about inflows. The net has been an outflow of this country under this government. I am really glad that the member brought up Trans Mountain, because I had meant to and did not quite have enough time. The Trans Mountain pipeline was a pipeline that a private builder would have built.
Mr. Speaker, I agree with much of what the member said. I do not think it is a good thing that the public money has to prop up any private project that would otherwise, in a proper regulatory environment that had clear criteria, make it investable. I do not agree with the government's approach. I do not agree that it has had the right approach on infrastructure at all. I could go on. I could
What's the effect of moving goalposts on investment? That's really what has happened. You're saying that old projects approved under a previous set of regulations are now subject to.... When you move the goalposts, what does that do to investment?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to be at this committee. I've never sat as a full member of this committee before. I've visited a few times as a substitute. It's good to be here, though. Natural resources are an extraordinarily important part of the economy in my riding. The energy industry employs a tremendous number of Calgarians, so it's good to be here at the natural resources committee.
I nominate Carol Anstey as vice-chair.
The Fisheries Act of 2019 has caused investors to flat out say “no”, over these last seven years since that—
Projects are on pause or cancelled—and this is just in the hydro power sector. C-69 I think we all know about another act that got royal assent in 2019, the Impact Assessment Act—Bill—and the effect that it had on pipeline construction and major projects for other forms of energy. C-39 You say Billdoesn't go far enough. What would it need to do to allow major projects to go forward?
What effect does ambiguous regulation have on investment?