In the Community Photos from Ottawa & Calgary I delivered the Address to the Haggis before serving meals to the homeless with other elected officials and volunteers. Thank you to the New Caledonian :_____________________ Society and the Drop-In Centre. Business Owner Owner Business ☐ Postal Code Postal Briefing to Parliamentarians on the situation in Hong Kong. Youth/Student Retired Retired Honoured to participate in two citizenship ceremonies in the ☐ ☐ Check allthatCheckapply): riding recently. Thank you to ( St. Rita School and Renert :____________________________________________ School for hosting. Veteran Email ☐ Unemployed Good weather for Evansfest 2020. ☐ Congrats to President Rob Morton, VP Doug Lamb and volunteers OURSELF AS A from the Evanston Creekside www.patkellymp.ca [email protected] 403-282-7980 @PatKellyMP @PatKelly_MP Senior Senior Community Association. OUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, WHICH 3 ISSUES FEDERAL WHICH OF MEMBER PARLIAMENT, OUR ☐ Dear Constituents, I wish to thank the residents of Calgary Rocky Ridge for entrusting me with the responsibility of representing them in the House of Commons. I spent the last summer and fall knocking on thousands of doors and tried my best to meet as many people as possible prior to the election in October. The conversations I have on doorsteps are valuable and inform me as :_______________________ :_______________________ Working Canadian Working household a multigenerational of Part Parent your Member of Parliament. :___________________________________________ :___________________________________________ ☐ ☐ ☐ :___________________________________________________________________________ Constituent Michelle Gerez, was The work of Parliament has begun and I have already spoken publicly about many of the things I heard during the accepted to the Forum for Young campaign. Particularly about sense of frustration with the federal government that so many constituents have raised with Canadians program. me both during and following the election. In addition, my constituency office, located in Crowfoot, resumed normal WOULD YOU DESCRIBE Y WOULD DESCRIBE YOU Name Address Telephone PLEASE TELL ME, PLEASEAS Y TELL ME, THE MOST TO MATTER YOU: 1. 2. 3. Celebrated Dorothy Mines’ 100th birthday at the Arbour operation following the election. My staff will continue to help constituents who have problems dealing with a department Lake Retirement Residence. or agency of the federal government, or who simply wish to drop in to discuss important national issues. Taylor Ketter represented As I have said many times, it is an honour and privilege to serve my community. From the seat in the House of Commons Canada at the World Tap that I have been granted by your votes, I will do my very best to represent you. I will demand accountability from the Championships in Germany. government for its actions and speak out on your behalf. Once again, thank you for the opportunity of doing so. ” Brad Osadczuk and Melanie Wowk of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. - Pat Kelly No “ Constituent Santanna Hernandez, Co- Chair Indigenous Advisory Council, New Roles in the 43rd Parliament Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. ” Gabrielle Gallant & Megan Boyle of the % said Canadian Beverage Association. On December 12th, Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer announced his intention to resign as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada upon the selection of a new leader. I would like to thank 16 Andrew Scheer for his hard work as Opposition Leader in the last Parliament, for placing his confidence in me by including me in his Shadow Cabinet and for leading our party through the and I spoke to many residents at the Silver Springs election that reduced the governing Liberals to a minority government. ” Community Association AGM, including Welcomed new 10-year-old Morgan Gukert. Canadian citizen Andrew Scheer has appointed a new Shadow Cabinet to hold the Liberal Government accountable. Yes Georgette Mangen. I have been reassigned to the role of Shadow Minister for Finance (Associate). Shadow Ministers are “ Each year I sign hundreds of letters responsible for analyzing Government bills and motions tabled by their Government counterparts and certificates for and preparing position recommendations. I will work with my colleague Pierre Poilievre, who Answering questions from residents at The Manor new Canadians who Winter 2020 Contents Village at Rocky Ridge. remains the Opposition Shadow Minister for Finance, and the other members of the Conservative Jahau Yang interviewed me reside in the riding. Economic Affairs team. recently for a school project. • Message to Constituents Remembrance Day at the Jubilee I am pleased to remain a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. This committee • New Roles in the 43rd Legion and a sunrise ceremony at is one of the oldest and most important parliamentary committees. It is the committee that receives the Field of Crosses. the Government of Canada’s Public Accounts, which are detailed financial statements tabled each Parliament member of themember of Opposition? year. In a parliamentary democracy, it is critical that the Government only spend money that is • Diwali on the Hill 2019 directly and specifically authorized by Parliament; it is the committee’s task to ensure that all spending is accounted for and that funds were expended for the purpose authorized by Parliament. • Opposition in a Minority Have I Have represented you wellthis in Parliament,as a The committee also receives and studies reports from the Auditor General who examines specific SURVEY RESPONSES SURVEY “ % of responders said government programs, departments and agencies to determine if there is adequate management and Parliament 84 oversight, value for money spent, or whether policy objectives are being achieved. • Remarks in Response to In addition to my committee and Shadow Cabinet roles, I will continue to participate in debate in Speech from the Throne Nicolas Moyer, Aly Bandali and Carolynn the House of Commons, ask questions in Question Period, and make use of all available tools to Thank you to those who took the time to respond to the previous Thank to the you previous to those who took the time to respond Cummins of the Canadian Council for Heather and Gordon Thompson, representing question: hold the Government account such as Order Paper questions (written questions that the • Member’s Statement the National Association of Federal Retirees. International Development. Government must answer), and Access to Information requests. Diwali on the Hill 2019 Remarks in Response to the Speech from the Throne Remarks Continued... If the Prime Minister meant what he said about getting Canadian Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights which celebrates the triumph of light resources to market, it would require him to undo much of the over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. work of the last Parliament. It would require him to repeal In 1997, then rookie Calgary MP, the Hon. Deepak Obhrai, began the Bill C-69 or implement every single one of the Senate amendments tradition of Diwali on the Hill, which brought together hundreds of that were rejected last spring. Hindu and non-Hindu Canadians from across the country to celebrate together in Ottawa on Parliament Hill. It would require him to repeal Bill C-48. It would require him to champion Canada as a reliable source of ethically extracted Sadly, my friend Deepak passed away this past summer. His family, resources and to disown his own prior anti-Canadian-energy including his daughter, Calgary Rocky Ridge constituent Priti Obhrai- rhetoric. It would require him to actually take concrete steps to Martin, wanted to ensure his legacy of celebrating Diwali on the Hill ensure Trans Mountain could be completed. It would require him continues. to apologize for chasing its private sector proponent out of Canada and for having to send $4.5 billion to Texas so they could th th On November 5 , I had the honour of hosting the 19 national Diwali compete with us by building pipelines elsewhere. on the Hill celebration in Ottawa where both Government and The Speech from the Throne is prepared by the spoke with people who had not worked in years. told me that they were appalled by the constant Opposition MPs paid tribute to Deepak and his many important Prime Minister and read by the Governor I heard from people who told me that they were parade of ministers to the Ethics Commissioner, contributions to public life. General. It sets out the Government’s on the verge of losing their homes. I talked with by a Prime Minister prepared to bully his own The Liberals think they deserve some kind of credit for buying a objectives for the upcoming parliamentary people whose spouses were working in Texas Cabinet and break the law just to get his own pipeline that should never have been for sale in the first place. I can My thanks and congratulations to the many volunteers who made session. It immediately follows the election of and coming home for a couple of weekends a way, and by the way the Prime Minister's assure them that not one single person I met in my riding, where the event possible, the Obhrai family for asking me to continue a Speaker of the House of Commons at the month or were working in the Middle East or personal conduct never matches his moral pipelines are a huge issue, thought that buying it was anything other the tradition, and the many guests for making it a successful very beginning of a Parliament after an other parts of the world and only coming home preening. than a last-ditch solution to a problem 100% of the Liberals' own election. The following is my speech in reply celebration. a few times over the course of a year. making. to the Speech from the Throne, slightly edited for length. The full original can be viewed on They told me, at door after door, that the Prime To sum up, the Throne Speech contains nothing for my ourcommons.ca or on my YouTube channel.