Speeches by The Hon. L. Craig Cannonier, JP, MP

9 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Okay.

9 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you. On page C -5, under Ministry of Public Works, we see here the grant for the Corporation of St. George’s. We can see that it has been reduced. I do believe the Minister did mention this, but I am not sure. Again, I was listening intently but we understand that times are tough right now and we recognise …

9 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Okay. I’ll continue through, bearing in mind the time. So I will continue through.

9 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, much obliged. Thank you very much. We now move to Head 53, housing corpor ation. I, again, this is a highlighted area. I know this is probably one of the areas that the Minister also has taken a lot of pride in, especially understanding that he was a m ajor part, or the part, of the H.U.S.T.LE. Truck formation, …

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker. Can you hear me? The Sp eaker: MP Cannonier, you have your 20 minutes.

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I appreciate some of the sentiments that have been echoed within this parliamentary session about working together. And I know that th is has been scoffed back and forward, but I do believe that all 36 Members of this House of Parliament have the intent of wanting to do the best …

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker , sorry.

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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I have another computer. I just walked—

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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I’m coming through clear again?

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Okay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And so, it is troubling for all of us to witness and to be able to see where our young people are exhibiting these antisocial behaviours. And we are seeing more and more crimes comm itted with knives and the like. And we have got to find ways to move our young people into a …

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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I’m moving. I’m moving .

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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My apologies, Mr. Speaker. Can you hear me now?

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you very much. I apologise to the public for the garble. We thought that the microphone was working fine. Apparently, it is not working very well at all. And so, we are looking for clarity on so many things. And when we get this going back and forth as to whether or not we are critiquing or whether …

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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—we saw a route forward and we took the route forward.

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Obviously, Mr. Speaker. He obviously is lacking on the facts there. He’s saying $33 million—that was the amount that was put aside. But to clean it up is going to cost — Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Point of order.

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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—way more than that. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Point of order, Mr. Speaker

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Ye s, well let me break it down to a simple fact. If you have a bag of apples si tting next to you, and all the apples are good in the bag, you are going to buy it. But if you have a bag of apples that are all good and one bag of apples that has one bad …

4 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes. [He said] 90 per cent of them are a serious challenge because all we are doing is shifting one customer from one place to another because we only have 33,000 adults working and spending money. That is nowhere near enough to maintain our standard of living in this Island. And so, Mr. Speaker, I know that I have one …

18 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. On page 3, I just wanted to find out, the Ho nourable Member mentioned in the second to last paragraph “To that end we have secured the services of Bermuda House of Assembly a project engineer to lead the project . . . .” I was just wondering if he could tell us if this …

18 Feb 2022 House of Assembly

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Finish the question.