David Kilgour

[Foreign Affairs, December 14th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, we were informed the day after Mr. Baker's tragic disappearance. An official was sent from our embassy in Libreville to arrange the search. Our ambassador in Gabon has spoken to everybody, including the president, about the case. I, personally, have spoken with the family on several occasions.

Unfortunately, three months have gone by. However, we feel that the Government of Gabon is doing everything it can to try to find this citizen of Canada.

[Supply, November 30th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, would the hon. member tell us a little more about how he thinks we could make it more difficult for criminals, particularly the organized career type of criminal, to get into Canada?

[Supply, November 30th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Langley—Abbotsford knows I share his concern about the drug situation in Vancouver and elsewhere in the country.

Could he tell us how we could stop approximately one young person a day from dying of an overdose in East Vancouver and many other places in the country? What could we do to combat that more effectively?

[Sierra Leone, October 19th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, Canada supports the proposal to establish a new UN presence and peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone, including 6,000 peacekeepers. We have been working closely on the motion which we expect will be voted on Friday at the Security Council. We have donated approximately $10 million in the last two years. The member for Carleton—Gloucester was there recently as our special envoy to explain the importance we give to the peace process. We are basically doing as much as we can and we hope to do more.

[Criminal Code, April 20th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, I salute the member on his intervention. There was not a word that he said that I disagreed with. In fact I enthusiastically support everything he said as I am sure many members around the House do.

Not so long ago a doctor in Edmonton told me he feels that about 15% of the babies born in one of our Edmonton hospitals will be essentially unemployable because of fetal alcohol syndrome. Would a national headstart program deal with that or would the member see separate ways of trying to deal with the scourge of fetal alcohol syndrome?

[Criminal Code, April 20th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Elk Island has worked in education with young people for 35 years.

He will know, I am sure, that the young people who commit serious crimes in or outside Sherwood Park are very small in number. In Millwoods, the member will perhaps be interested to know, there were apparently 17 persons, a year or so ago, who committed most of the serious crime.

Could he give us the benefit of his advice as to what he would do with that tiny minority in Millwoods? They are almost all young men. What would he do to the young men in his constituency who commit so much of the serious crime in Sherwood Park? As well, does he think that drugs are the cause of much of the crime?

[Criminal Code, April 20th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague from Wild Rose mentioned a family from Saskatchewan who was obliged to come 18 times to court in Alberta on a guilty plea involving a terrible tragedy.

As the member knows, I spent 10 years in court as a defence or crown counsel. Could he tell us, if he has the case at his fingertips, whether the fault for that was because of a probation officer, the judge, the crown or the defence counsel? Can he tell us the reason for this 18 time requirement?

[Criminal Code, April 20th, 1999]

Madam Speaker, I have already asked a question, but I would like to salute the member and his colleague from Surrey for the work they have done on victims rights. It is a very important matter in their ridings, my riding and every riding across the country.

Going back to drugs, I believe the figure is 240 residents of Vancouver died of heroin overdoses in the first six months of last year. That is more than one a day. Sharing his concern about drugs enormously, I wonder if he would say anything more about why he thinks those 240 fellow human beings might have died the way they did last year and why people continue to die in Vancouver and elsewhere in the country.

[Criminal Code, April 20th, 1999]

Madam Speaker, I was most interested in my colleague's comments about drugs. I wonder if the member wishes to comment on the DARE program, drug awareness resistance education. I am sure the member is aware of it. I wonder how it is working in British Columbia and whether the member thinks it is something we should be helping.

I would tell the member that I learned recently that 37,000 Alberta boys and girls in grade 6 took the course last year. It is a one hour course which lasts for 17 weeks. I wonder if the member has any comments as to how he thinks the DARE program is working in British Columbia and elsewhere.

[Income Tax Act, March 16th, 1999]

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-72, an act to amend the Income Tax Act, to implement measures that are consequential on changes to the Canada-U.S. Tax Convention (1980) and to amend the Income Tax Conventions Interpretation Act, the Old Age Security Act, the War Veterans Allowance Act and certain acts related to the Income Tax Act.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)