Monte Solberg

Monte Solberg
Monte Kenton Solberg, PCis a former Canadian Member of Parliament, representing the riding of Medicine Hat in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and later served as the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development. He has also served as Critic for Foreign Affairs, National Revenue, and Human Resources Development...
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We said, you know, there should be some public interest test met, if mergers would go forward. You know, we've been at this for I think eight years now, and as the Prime Minister said himself, the next government must deal with this issue. So we support a process.
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What the goal should be is to ensure we have maximum confidence in each other's border and that we focus more on having a secure perimeter to North America.
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We're reluctant to put any numbers in precisely because it has to be negotiated.
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We will have a mandate to pursue what we've laid out as priorities. These are all things the public is pretty supportive of anyways, so I think we can get a few things done.
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They're leaving that option open and that's why they're floating this fall budget thing.
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You're always going to have negative stuff from people whose ideas are not being used by the leader.
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This is the reason why we have refugee hearings in private, precisely because we want to protect that information.
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This is where Liberal pork comes to rest.