Speeches by Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Okay. Thank you. I am glad to see that they are increasing the removal, storage and disposal . . . so now when peo-ple are leaving their cars by the side of the road and you are not able to find that person, will this be applied to those people? Or is there going to be anything to be done …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes. Oh yes, just a few comments, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am in support of what we are doing here. And in aviation when you are flying, there is a cer tain manoeuvre that requires you to power up, pitch up, clean up. And what I like about this piece of legislation is that this is exactly what it …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, sir.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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I am, Mr. Speaker. I do not speak often. But the thing is that something has come up, and I feel I should share it with the House. And it is funny that . . . and once again I used an aviation analogy in my last contribution. But as you can tell, one of us has done their pilot …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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And I hear somebody here ask why. The reason that was given by the Premier was that they did not want to cut out the middleman. They did not want to cut out the middleman. So, Mr. Speaker, after that I had to go and ask myself, Who is this middleman that the grocers keep referring to? Mr. Speaker, what …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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And it says, and I quote, “In addition to being the largest dairy wholesaler in Bermuda, Dunkley’s is also one of the largest food wholesalers on island, distributing a wide range of products & brands.”

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Well, Mr. Speaker, yes. Those are not my words; those are theirs.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Those are theirs. So, Mr. Speaker, the milkman . . . no, sorry, the middlemen are the wholesalers, are the ones who are paying the sugar tax. And then they take that and pass it on to the grocers. But mind you, they are a business. So they have to put a mark -up of some sort on that, right? …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, exploitation. Remember, price gouging usually occurs after a demand or supply shock, which is . . . which could be considered the sugar tax. And so, Mr. Speaker, speaking of shock, there was somebody, there was a representative on the news on Monday, representative of Bermuda’s largest bottling operation who was talking about the negative impact that the sugar …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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When I recognise that the Minister of Finance earlier today mentioned that he was reviewing the sugar tax, but that should not take away from the fact that for the past two years this Government has been trying to work with the grocers, trying to work with the wholesalers, trying to work with the bottlers of this country who . …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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And it is so interesting that they did not want to cut their friends and family out of the loop, but what have we started to hear recently since 2017? It is all about “friends and family” on this side. Mr. Speaker, the man who kills his parents and then asks for mercy because he is an orphan. So, Mr …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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If the Member could declare his interest.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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No. He is talking about bus inesses. And he just finished buying a restaurant him-self, Mr. Speaker.

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague. In general, we support this legislation. However, I too have concerns in terms of granting even further power to the director. As you are aware, the DCF S has been in disarray for quite some time. The Royal Gazette has done a three- day— POINT OF ORDER Hon. Wayne …

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Okay. My apologies. What I was going to say was that there has been a series of articles that have been published. And that was not the basis for my comment. The legislation imposes a duty to comply with directions that have been made by the director. I guess my concern is why are we drafting legislation at this time …

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, have you ever played that game Whac -A-Mole? [Laughter and inaudible interjections ]

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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Where you bang it and it pops up somewhere els e? And no matter how many times you bang the mole, it keeps popping up. It is futile and r epetitive. The EU is the gift that continues to keep on giving to Bermuda. While we have taken the steps to level the playing field, we are still behind the …

13 Dec 2019 House of Assembly

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We should have never been on the blacklist, a feat that we accomplished despite over two years of meetings and correspondence and we still ended up there, and we are still recovering from it. So while other jurisdictions have had their legislation in place, have managed to allow their companies to be accessed and analysed to determine whether or not …