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Q-1025
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 |
With regard to Parks Canada’s revenue from national park admission fees, for each year between 2015 and 2025 inclusive: (a) how much revenue did Parks Canada collect from admissions to Banff National Park; (b) what percentage of total revenue did admissions to Banff National Park represent; and (c) how much revenue did Parks Canada collect from admission to each other national park, respectively? |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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Q-1024
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 |
With regard to the Minister of National Defence’s March 18, 2026, announcement of up to $642 million for General Dynamics - Ordnance and Tactical Systems to establish a manufacturing facility to load, assemble and pack 155mm High-Explosive projectiles: (a) in what year does the Minister of National Defence expect this facility to begin producing artillery shells; (b) how many 155mm artillery shells does the minister expect this facility to produce or to have capacity to produce in (i) the first year of operation, (ii) the second year of operation, (iii) the fifth year of operation, (iv) subsequent years; (c) what proportion of shells produced by this facility will be the M795 variant of the 155mm shell; and (d) what proportion of the shells produced by this facility will be the M107 variant of the 155mm shell? |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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Q-1023
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 |
With regard to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue’s remarks in the September 11, 2025, announcement of the Major Projects Office that the “government is committed to making Canada into a clean and conventional energy superpower”, the aim of the Major Projects Office to “work to fast-track nation-building projects by streamlining regulatory assessment and approvals and helping to structure financing”, and the contribution of natural gas to Canada’s conventional energy capacity: (a) what role does the Minister of Finance and National Revenue consider the export of liquefied natural gas to play in making Canada a conventional energy superpower; (b) what criteria did the government use in 2022 to determine that there was not a business case for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast; (c) what criteria does the government currently use in determining whether a business case exists for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast; (d) between 2016 and 2026, how many evaluations did the government perform of the business case for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast and when did it perform such evaluations; and (e) of the evaluations in (d), how many indicated that the provisions and process of the Impact Assessment Act had a deleterious effect on the business case for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast and on which dates did such evaluations report their results? |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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Q-1022
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 |
With regard to Prairies Economic Development Canada’s 2026-27 Departmental Plan’s Departmental Result Indicators: (a) under the “Number of technologies to market” indicator, (i) how many of the 131 reported technologies to market in 2023-24 were brought to market in Canada, (ii) how many of the 131 technologies to market in 2023-24 were brought to market outside of Canada, (iii) how many of the 92 technologies to market in 2024-25 were brought to market in Canada, (iv) how many of the 92 technologies to market in 2024-25 were brought to market outside of Canada, (v) what is Prairies Economic Development Canada’s 2026-27 target for the number of technologies brought to market specifically in Canada; and (b) under the “Value of business sales growth resulting from technology commercialization or adoption” indicator, (i) what proportion of the $15.2 million reported for 2023-24 came from technology commercialization or adoption in Canada, (ii) what proportion of the $15.2 million reported for 2023-24 came from technology commercialization or adoption outside of Canada, (iii) what proportion of the $31.0 million reported for 2024-25 came from technology commercialization or adoption in Canada, (iv) what proportion of the $31.0 million reported for 2024-25 came from technology commercialization or adoption outside of Canada, (v) what is Prairies Economic Development Canada’s 2026-27 target number for business sales growth resulting from technology commercialization or adoption specifically in Canada? |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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Q-740
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
With regard to the Prairie Partnership Initiative announced on December 9, 2025: (a) how many full-time equivalents will work exclusively on the initiative; (b) how many full-time equivalents will split their time between working on the initiative and working with other federal departments and agencies; (c) how much of the $200 million over three years committed by Prairies Economic Development Canada toward the initiative is allocated for administering the initiative; (d) how much funding has been or will be allocated for the initiative by (i) Environment and Climate Change Canada, (ii) Transport Canada, (iii) Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, (iv) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, (v) Natural Resources Canada, (vi) Indigenous Services Canada, (vii) Employment and Social Development Canada, (viii) Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada; and (e) will funding allocated to the initiative from Prairies Economic Development Canada and other departments be reported as operating expenses or capital expenses in the budget, the estimates and the Public Accounts? |
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Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-659
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Friday, December 5, 2025 |
With regard to the contributions of the government and the Canada Council for the Arts to the anthology of quotations titled “Be a Good One: Words to Lead By”, edited by former Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty and published by Dundern Press in 2025: (a) how much did the government contribute to the project; (b) was the funding in (a) a repayable contribution or a non-repayable grant, and, if it was a repayable contribution, was it interest-bearing and when is repayment due; (c) how much did the Canada Council for the Arts contribute to the project; and (d) was the funding a repayable contribution or a non-repayable grant, and, if it was a repayable contribution, was it interest-bearing and when is repayment due? |
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Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-624
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Monday, December 1, 2025 |
With regard to Canada’s efforts to prosecute tax evasion, for each year between January 2016 and December 2025, inclusively: (a) how many tax evasion investigations did the Canada Revenue Agency open; (b) how many tax evasion investigations did the Canada Revenue Agency close due to insufficient grounds to proceed; (c) how many investigations did the Canada Revenue Agency refer to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada for prosecution; (d) how many prosecutions (i) resulted in convictions, (ii) resulted in acquittals, (iii) were terminated with neither an acquittal nor a conviction; (e) how many (i) investigations, (ii) prosecutions, were for offshore tax evasion; and (f) how many (i) investigations, (ii) prosecutions, were for domestic tax evasion? |
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Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-581
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Monday, November 17, 2025 |
With regard to the new Capital Frameworks presented in Annex 2 of budget 2025, for each of capital transfers, capital-focused tax incentives, amortization of federal capital assets, private sector research and development, support to unlock large-scale private sector capital investment, and measures to grow the housing stock: (a) what specific criteria will be used to determine into which category or framework a given spending item will fall; (b) which department or agency, and who within that department or agency, will be responsible for applying the criteria in (a); and (c) how will spending items under the new categories be reported in the estimates and Public Accounts? |
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Monday, January 26, 2026 |
