MP Kram News Releases

  For Immediate Release March 31, 2023  Statement by Regina MPs Warren Steinley, Michael Kram, and Andrew Scheer on the Recommendations of the Nova Scotia Inquiry  First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the 22 families who lost loved ones during the horrific tragedy in Nova Scotia three years ago. We hope the Mass Casualty Commission report has brought the families the closure and justice they deserve.   Regarding the report’s recommendations, Regina‘s Conservative MPs are deeply concerned about the recommendation to close the RCMP training Depot division in Regina and build new facilities elsewhere. We are not convinced that changing the location of the training facility would improve RCMP incident response.   RCMP Depot in Regina is a world-class police training facility. More than that, we have seen first-hand the impact of Depot on our city. Recruits support important cultural and charitable work in the community by helping ...

 Carbon Tax "Bleeds Small Business Dry": MP Kram  Michael Kram, MP for Regina Wascana, today in Ottawa accused the Liberal government of "exploiting and suffocating" small business with its carbon tax policies.  Kram referenced a report released today by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business which showed that small businesses pay roughly 50 per cent of carbon taxes yet retuned next to nothing to them.  "This supposedly revenue-neutral tax is nothing of the sort. It has become a cash cow for the Liberals who are trying to bleed small businesses dry. When I was on the Industry and Technology Committee, a Liberal member of the committee explicitly said that the whole point of the tax was to inflict pain on small business," Kram said.  "Unlike big business, small businesses can't afford lobbyists, don't have access to carbon offsets, have less flexibility to reduce their energy use and don't have many friends in the Liberal caucus. T...