As an Opposition MP, Benoit was the official opposition critic of Public Works and Government Services and the Canadian Wheat Board, Intergovernmental Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration, and National Defence.
After he abruptly adjourned the committee, the Vice-Chair took over, and the meeting resumed after he and three of the four other Conservative members had left.
[2] Regarding the Citizen's Arrest and Self-Defence Act, Benoit stated that the legislation would expand the circumstances in which citizens can make arrests and simplify the self-defense and defense of property provisions in the Criminal Code.
[3] In 2013, Benoit joined two other Conservative MPs (Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott and Ontario MP Wladyslaw Lizon) in writing a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police requesting a homicide investigation into some late-term abortions that may have resulted in live births.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, "I think all members of this House, whether they agree with it or not, understand that abortion is legal in Canada, and this government, myself included, have made it very clear that the government does not intend to change the law in this regard.