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In the Community Photos from Ottawa & Calgary :_________________________ Business Owner Owner Business All Seniors Care Seniors Games Closing Ceremonies ☐ Postal Code Postal 2015? Calgary Police Association Scenic Acres Community Association AGM Calgary Chinatown Lions Club Banquet Retired Retired Youth/Student ☐ ☐ Check allthatCheckapply): ( :_________________________________________________ Veteran Email Unsure ☐ Unemployed ☐ __ __ OURSELF AS A www.patkellymp.ca [email protected] 403-282-7980 @PatKellyMP @PatKelly_MP OW THAN YOU WERE OW THAN IN Senior Senior ☐ With MLA Muhammad Yaseen Dear Constituents, No :________________________________________________________________ Canadian Federation of Independent Business Alberta Caucus Open House The House of Commons is in what will likely be its final session of this Parliament. I am busy in Ottawa with the ongoing work of the Public __ __ Sage Hill Community Association AGM Accounts committee, which scrutinizes public spending and receives and studies the work of the Auditor General. :_______________________ :_______________________ Working Canadian Working household multigenerational a of Part Parent In addition, I continue to work at holding the government to account for its actions, and, in particular, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and :________________________________________________________________________________ Comments ☐ ☐ ☐ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ ____ :___________________________________________ Minister for National Revenue as the Conservative Shadow Minister for National Revenue. I meet with various stakeholder groups who travel to Ottawa to meet with Parliamentarians, and with constituents whose business brings them to Ottawa, and individuals who wish to discuss Yes Evanston Creekside Community concerns about the CRA. I also participate in debate on bills and motions and in the daily question period. Association AGM WOULD YOU DESCRIBE Y WOULD DESCRIBE YOU Name(s) Address Telephone ARE YOUARE BETTER OFF N __ __ While I am in Ottawa, my Calgary office carries on its work assisting constituents with problems or concerns related to departments and agencies of the federal government. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate MLAs Sonya Savage, Jason Copping, Jason Luan, Prasad Panda and Muhammad Yaseen whose provincial constituencies overlap my federal riding. I note that all five MLAs elected who represent my constituents provincially were appointed to senior positions in the new Kenney government, so I am very pleased by the strong representation my constituents will receive in the Provincial Legislature. ” Chinese Freemasons Seniors Appreciation I also thank Michael Connolly, Sandra Jansen and Karen McPherson for their service to our mutual constituents and wish them the best as each No Vietnamese Lunar New Year “ of them returns to private life. ” - Pat Kelly ” With MLA Prasad Panda Spring 2019 Contents % said 77 Unsure Loblaws Receives $12 Million • Message to Constituents “ and Corporate Subsidy • Loblaws Receives $12M ” www.patkellymp.ca Corporate Subsidy On April 8th, the Environment Minister announced that Loblaws, a large, profitable corporation, Yes will receive $12 million to retrofit freezers. The payment is part of the Liberal Government’s “ • The SNC-Lavalin Affair Low Carbon Economy Challenge Champion stream of the Low Carbon Economy Leadership Polar Plunge at Arbour Lake Sherwood Community Association AGM Fund. The Fund allocates nearly $2 billion for technology which produces lower carbon dioxide • Auditor General’s Report Appraisal Institute of Canada With MLA Jason Copping emissions. • Budget 2019 Loblaws was awarded $12 million, about a quarter of the cost of its retrofit program, which the government claims will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of removing 50,000 • Bills C-76, C-406 & Election of responders were cars from the road. Integrity Critics have pointed out that the principal shareholder of Loblaws is one of the wealthiest Do you support this decision? families in Canada and does not need public assistance to subsidize a profitable business which • Bills C-48, C-69, C-71 in the 10% could replace its own freezers at its own expense to benefit from savings on electricity. Critics have also mentioned that Loblaws’ lobbyists frequently donated to the Liberal Party of Canada Senate and attended cash for access fundraisers with the Prime Minister. Some of the same lobbyists SURVEY RESPONSES SURVEY % of responders said Canada signedUN the Global Compact Migration. for • If you preferto answer the new survey online, Member’s Statement please visit websitemy at “ advised the company to seek the $12 million grant as well. 13 • Scam Alert The government has not released details on how recipients’ progress in implementing retrofit programs will be tracked or whether awarded funds will be disbursed in lump sums up front or • Survey Results & Question With MP Rempel, MLAs Savage & Luan and by installment as retrofit milestones are reached. As in the case of Loblaws, the Fund effectively 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 With Constituent Michael Gretton & Constituent Mike Bingley & youth from the Met with Constituents on the Hill for subsidizes profitable businesses without making life more affordable for ordinary Canadians. • Representatives of Results Canada Councillors Magliocca, Sutherland & Chu Photo Highlights question: Canadian Wildlife Federation Aviation Day The SNC-Lavalin Affair Budget 2019 Member’s Statement On February 7 the Globe and Mail published an article stating that coordinated, sustained and Justice Minister and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould was inappropriate pressure to The deficit this year is $19.8 billion, which The Treasury Board submission and vetting the paper version is off by a total of $153 subjected to inappropriate political pressure to interfere in the decision interfere in the SNC-Lavalin will bring the national debt to $705.4 billion. process involves government departments million, while some line items like the “Other” to prosecute Montreal-based construction and engineering firm SNC- case; Debt servicing charges are now $23.6 billion preparing detailed plans for how to implement category before the totals is off by $2.2 billion. Lavalin, which is charged with bribery and corruption, before being • Conservative leader Andrew per year, which is approximately the same as policies or budget measures, including how Whole sub-departments are also omitted from removed from her position. Scheer calls for the Prime the Canadian Armed Forces budget. The implementation will align with priorities like the table, such as the Civilian Review and Minister to resign, stating that deficit in 2019, combined with those of the last value for money and efficient use of existing Complaints Commission of the Royal Key facts and events include: he had lost the moral authority three years, means that the current government resources, how lessons learned affect the new Canadian Mounted Police. Mr. McCauley’s • On February 27th, 2018, the Liberal Government introduces an to govern. Conservatives has increased the national debt more than any plan, and the results of previous related office caught these errors by simply adding up omnibus Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-74) which includes continue to raise the matter in previous government outside of war or initiatives. Considerable time and diligence the columns, yet the Department of Finance C-69 changes to the Criminal Code of Canada to enact deferred Question Period and media appearances; recession. goes into such submissions, including briefing under this Finance Minister apparently missed prosecution agreements into law. Deferred prosecution agreements • Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick announces his ministers, documenting the process for future them. After Mr. McCauley pointed out the allow corporations facing charges to avoid criminal convictions in retirement on March 18th; The Budget which the Minister of Finance reference, and thoroughly costing the plan. errors, the government corrected and re-tabled My Statement in the House of Commons tables each year is a statement of the the figures. on January 30th, 2019: some circumstances. While studying Bill C-74, the Finance • Ms. Wilson-Raybould submits further documents and an audio Committee questions why this provision was included in a budget th government’s priorities. Actual changes to the Requiring votes on budget measures without recording to the Justice Committee on March 29 . The recording law are done through Budget Implementation Treasury Board submissions runs counter to These errors are significant because Mr. Speaker, the Liberals said they bought the Trans Mountain bill. Bill C-74 passes in June 2018; corroborates her account of discussions with Privy Council Clerk th Acts, and actual spending is authorized by the ancient and essential role of Parliament in expenditures must be voted on in the Estimates pipeline to guarantee construction would start in 2018, but the • September 17 , Prime Minister Trudeau discusses the SNC- Michael Wernick in that she warns him several times about Lavalin case with Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody votes on what are called the Main