00:02:20.600Do you agree with Ms. Godew's assumption that the individual members that are part of the government get preferred treatment and they get more dollars?
00:02:30.600No, I disagree, and I think at this point we're talking about the work of the Canada Infrastructure Bank,
00:02:36.200which certainly has done many of their projects in regions, irrespective of who the Member of Parliament was.
00:02:45.440They've delivered those across the country right now.
00:02:47.520Thank you, Minister. I think it's quite clear that where we have the CIB give a development over $200 billion to a Liberal insider,
00:02:58.720followed up by your newest member saying that in order to get government dollars, you need to be a Liberal.
00:03:05.440I think it's quite clear where the evidence points.
00:03:07.180The Criminal Code forbids any MP from accepting money, valuable consideration, office or place or employment in respect of anything done.
00:03:17.520A new report by RBC paints a devastating picture of economic loss for Canada since 2015.
00:03:25.300The report found more than $1 trillion in investment left Canada, the largest capital
00:03:31.840exodus in Canadian history during that time.
00:03:35.000The lost investment was mainly in the oil and gas sector, but also included electricity,
00:04:34.020The Conservative member for Bow River, David Bextie, has introduced a private member's bill aimed at helping farmers, and he is our guest today. Welcome, sir.
00:04:43.880Welcome. Thank you very much for having me.
00:04:46.480Tell us a little bit about your bill and how it's designed to help the farming community, which, frankly, needs some help these days.
00:04:55.160Yeah, we do. And we, right? I am a farmer, too, although my time is divided now between Ottawa and the farm.
00:05:03.500So the bill is designed to enable an expedited path for products, new or existing products, that the agriculture industry needs to improve their business, run their business, protect their business, both pesticides, fertilizers, feeds, seeds, then through a little bit different pathway, veterinary products,
00:05:27.060to more easily enter the Canadian marketplace
00:05:32.000if they come from a trusted regulatory regime,
00:05:36.960trusted jurisdictions, partners, allies that we work with forever in some cases,
00:05:43.520the EU, the United States, the UK, Australia, New Zealand.
00:05:46.460And it codifies into the legislation a pathway
00:05:51.740to a provisional registration for new products that is granted 90 days past an application right
00:05:59.340today the problem is years of study and analysis and more importantly duplication of analysis
00:06:06.460and study on products that have already been granted use in the united states or europe
00:06:11.760and the regulators in canada want to just repeat all that stuff here just for their own benefit
00:06:17.740because they seem to not trust the other jurisdictions.
00:06:22.720We're trusting those other jurisdictions.
00:06:24.300At the same time, the minister and these agencies
00:06:26.280have the right to continue in parallel to do their work,
00:07:16.560Some of the foundations of this bill have been looked at in previous parliaments and had pretty much universal support, right?
00:07:25.060So I've had a brief discussion already with Minister of Agriculture. I'm going to be speaking with more Liberal colleagues.
00:07:30.240You know, this is really offered in good pace as a really simple and meaningful way that we can really improve productivity and food security and economic viability and rural resiliency with a very simple bill.
00:07:46.660considering the housing commitments that marilyn glad you got for her riding of sarnia
00:07:53.620after crossing the floor to join the liberals of would you ever consider taking such a step in
00:08:00.520order to get a bill like this passed you know this whole issue of um floor crossers right and
00:08:06.800people demonstrating their disloyalty and their unreliability i you know i i feel i've never been0.59
00:08:12.980contacted by the liberals and I feel somewhat insulted but also at the same time I can't
00:08:20.240imagine a price high enough like that there's just no way right it does not compute at all in my
00:08:27.680personal calculus my I yeah it's just completely outside the realm of possibility I'm here for my
00:08:37.200constituents my residents of the residents and constituents of Bow River right and that
00:08:41.640that will never change. I mean, it's right on the line in terms of what you're hearing from
00:08:49.760Marilyn Gladwell, your former colleague, in terms of what commitments she may have or not have
00:08:56.500gotten to help her riding. I mean, this kind of pork barreling is extremely unsavory stuff
00:09:05.300when you consider that, you know, you get certain goodies if you're on the government side and you
00:09:09.860don't get that for your constituents if you're on the opposition side it uh i think it'll rub a lot
00:09:17.700of canadians the wrong way can you elaborate a little bit more about what your thinking is on
00:09:22.500that subject i well i agree i mean minister jolie almost as much as said it right if you don't live
00:09:27.860in a liberal riding you're not going to get anything um you know that just speaks volumes
00:09:33.460uh you know to kind of expand that question a little bit on the whole notion of floor
00:09:38.500crossing has been a you know plus or minus unsavory tradition in the westminster system for
00:09:44.500a very very long time and my hero winston churchill even you know he's crossed the floor more than
00:09:51.300months um and there's you know i can wrap my heart my mind around justification of that if it was
00:10:02.020based off principles but these last five crossings are it's absolutely obvious it was not based off
00:10:12.500a principle decision right this was a quid pro quo right there was a price paid um 30 silver pieces
00:10:20.260whatever it was right you know that there was a price paid and it may not have been overt it may
00:10:25.300have been you know whatever right but that that is you know fairly despicable in my mind right and
00:10:31.620it's got no part of my personal calculus um we spoke with an advocate for alberta independence
00:10:39.460there's also a lawyer jeff rath who said on this very show this week that he has it on very good
00:10:46.260authority that the prime minister would use the emergencies act in the event of an affirmative vote
00:10:54.100in the referendum the independence referendum that is expected to take place in alberta in
00:10:59.140the fall in other words he would use legal aspects of the emergencies act in order to protect canada
00:11:08.820the sovereignty of canada security of canada and in the event that albertans voted to leave
00:11:17.540the commonwealth or to leave canada and become their own nation do you have any thoughts about
00:11:22.980that you know even for for the prime minister carney it it seems like a bit of a reach um you
00:11:34.180know i know that they're going to the supreme court for some clarification you know hoping for
00:11:38.180a different ruling on the evocation of the emergencies act by trudeau uh previously and
00:11:44.180and it's it's reaching uh i i find pretty hard to comment on you know speculation of hearsay
00:11:51.380right so that that's the first thing so yeah it i guess that'll come out in due course i really
00:11:58.260that would be an extraordinary and egregious overreach
00:12:04.500are you saying that if albertans vote to separate become their own country
00:12:10.180that the government of canada should respect that i'm not saying anything you know i'm saying i'm
00:12:17.300I'm saying you're asking me to speculate on a hypothetical and it's, you know, so it gets pretty fuzzy all over.
00:12:23.980And, you know, I know how polarizing this issue is.
00:12:26.400I know how, you know, comments from people like me and where we're at, they can be leveraged, right?
00:12:34.080And so, you know, I'm not going to add any fuel to the fire at all in that respect.
00:12:39.820Again, you know, he said, she said, she said, it's hearsay, even whether or not it happened or not.