MP Kram News Releases

 For immediate release July 13, 2022  Kram to Help Lead Investigation into Rogers Outage   Michael Kram, Member of Parliament for Regina-Wascana, will be helping  to lead a federal investigation into last week's nation-wide Rogers Communications  outage.  "The Rogers outage showed just how vulnerable Canada has become in our  current telecommunications environment. All across the country, regular people  had their lives disrupted no matter whether they were Rogers customers or not.  Not only did cellphones and internet go down but debit networks went down,  making it difficult for people to do something as simple as buying groceries. This is  an unacceptable state of affairs for our country," Kram said.  Kram and the three other Conservative MPs on the House of Commons  Standing Committee on Industry and Technology sent a joint letter to Parliament  demanding an emergency meeting of the committee to investigate the ou...

 For immediate release  April 25, 2022  Kram Condemns Liberals' Home Equity Tax Grab  Michael Kram, MP for Regina-Wascana today condemned reports that the Trudeau government is continuing to research the implementation of a tax on home equity.  Home equity, the increase over time in the market value of a family's principal residence, represents one of the largest sources of retirement savings and investments for average Canadians. It has never before been taxed in Canadian history.  The Liberal government had previously funded a small study into the policy proposal but denied that they were considering it seriously. However, according to documents and memos obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), the federal Liberals recently pumped an additional $200,000 into Generation Squeeze, an academic organization advocating for a home equity tax.  www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/cmhc-giving-200,000-more-to-home-equity-tax-advocates  "There's a reaso...

 For immediate release  November 2, 2021  Kram Welcomes Return of International Flights to Regina  Michael Kram, MP for Regina Wascana, today welcomed the news that direct international flights will be allowed to return to Regina on November 30. The Ministry of Transport today announced a partial lifting of restrictions on eight airports across the country. "This announcement is, obviously, overdue but better late than never," Kram said.  However, Kram noted that there was still more to be done, both locally and nationally.  "The federal government is still in the game of playing favourites for no obvious reasons. Today, they lifted restrictions on another eight regional airports but there are another nine that are still unable to receive international flights. Further, Regina and many other airports continue to struggle financially due to lack of support from the Liberal government through the pandemic. The fight to preserve and grow Canada's air services ...

 For immediate release  October 29, 2021  Kram Demands Feds End Flight Blight to Regina  Michael Kram, Member of Parliament for Regina-Wascana, today joined Conservative Shadow Minister of Transport in demanding that the Trudeau government lift the remaining international flight bans at airports across Canada, including Regina's.  "With international travel now opening for vaccinated persons, Regina residents are starting to make their holiday travel plans. These plans are being upended and kept in continued uncertainty through the Liberals' unfair treatment of Regina International Airport and 17 others across the country," Kram said.  Kram emphasized the ongoing damage that the flight restrictions were having on the local  economy.  "I have heard from numerous local travel agents who have seen their businesses decimated over the past year and a half with no end in sight as long as our city is unable to host international flights. These restrictio...

  Kram Calls for Transport Minister to Intervene in Nav Canada Scandal  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  January 29, 2021  Regina, SK- Michael Kram, MP for Regina-Wascana, called on federal Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra to stop the closure of air traffic controller towers in the wake of revelations that Nav Canada has made a potentially unlawful, unilateral, secretive decision to close the towers, including Regina's.  Nav Canada, a private-public non-profit that operates Canada's air traffic control towers, had previously announced that it was undertaking a year-long operational review of towers in Whitehorse, Windsor, Sault Ste. Marie, Regina, Fort McMurray, Prince George and St-Jean in Quebec. At the time, Nav Canada assured stakeholders that no decision had yet been made. However, yesterday, members of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association, the union representing air traffic controllers, revealed that their members in all six locations had received notices...