Yesterday

Spoke in the House on Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, I will try to be brief, but there is a lot to cover. I commend the committee for doing this review and coming together ...

Spoke in the House on BUSINESS OF SUPPLY Mr. Chair, a study in the journal Environmental Research Letters analyzed 4,000 summaries of peer-reviewed papers in journals giving a view of climate change since the ...

Spoke in the House on Public Works and Government Services Mr. Speaker, perhaps the minister could do something to support aboriginal businesses. These Conservatives came to power promising transparency and accountability, saying rigged contracts were a ...

Spoke in the House on Petitions Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions. The first petition is from residents of Edmonton, Leduc, Cold Lake, Valleyview, basically from across Alberta. The petitioners state that ...

Voted No on Vote #685 That the Ninth Report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status ...

Voted Yes on Vote #684 on Bill S-9 Amend the Criminal Code

Voted Yes on Vote #683 That, in light of $3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report ...

Voted Yes on Vote #682 That the motion be amended by adding the following: “and that in order to avoid losing funds in ...

Posted on Twitter Did I hear Oliver right? They are only investing a paltry $1.4 million over 14 years for renewables! At least he said the word finally #CoTW

Posted on Twitter After 4 hrs Conservative MPs have not mentioned energy efficiency or renewable power potential for jobs & energy security #CoTW #cdnpoli

Posted on Twitter After 3 hrs Conservatives havnt even mentioned potential wealth, jobs potential from energy efficiency or renewables #cotw #cdnpoli

Posted on Twitter After 3 hours hearing Conservatives

Posted on Twitter Mayor Mandel deserves accolades as a tireless advocate for our Capital City's economy, infrastructure, universities & arts #yeg

Posted on Twitter Harper's fast tracked resource projects, cuts to science, delayed regulation is main threat to Canadian sustainable energy future #cotw

A week ago

Spoke in the House on Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies annually celebrates Elizabeth Fry on this week. Based in communities across Canada, including Edmonton and Ottawa, they ...

Spoke in the House on Public Works and Government Services Mr. Speaker, here is a reason the government needs to find that $3.1 billion. This week the Ontario Superior Court ordered a further increase in the ...

Spoke in the House on Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak today to the motion by the member for Pontiac asking for action to be taken to address the missing, ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Government Expenditures Mr. Speaker, then there is the other $2.5 billion. According to today's Toronto Star, the government has spent $2.4 billion over the past decade on consulting ...

Voted Yes on Vote #681 on Bill S-213 Respecting a national day of remembrance to honour Canadian veterans of the Korean War

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Energy Efficiency in Government Buildings, Structures and Public Works and Main Estimates ... If I can be really concise, I'm sharing my time with my colleague, Monsieur Blanchette. I'm very interested in these streamlined responses that you have introduced. ...

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Main Estimates 2013-14: Votes 95, 100, 105 and 110 under CANADIAN HERITAGE, ... Okay, thanks. My final question is for Mr. Dion. I'd like to thank you for the briefing that you provided a few months back. It was ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Main Estimates 2013-14: Votes 95, 100, 105 and 110 under CANADIAN HERITAGE, ... Mr. Chair, at this time I'd like to move a motion related to the testimony we've heard on the integrated relocation program. That motion is: That, ...

Mentioned by CBC.ca Spy watchdog shouldn't work for Manning Centre, NDP says Alberta NDP MP Linda Duncan rose during Friday's question period in the House of Commons to ask whether the Harper government was investigating after Strahl spoke out in defence of the work of the centre earlier this week. Calgary developers have ...

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Main Estimates 2013-14: Votes 95, 100, 105 and 110 under CANADIAN HERITAGE, ... I notice that in the last year the estimate was $1.2 million and was reported as $11.2 million. We seem to be underestimating the actual cost ...

A month ago

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Main Estimates 2013-14: Votes 95, 100, 105 and 110 under CANADIAN HERITAGE, ... Okay, there appears to be some discrepancy and, of course, part of the struggle for members of Parliament in scrutinizing spending is that the government has ...

Spoke at the Fisheries committee on Northern and Arctic Fisheries It sounds to me like there isn't an overall forum. On the recreational fishery and the legendary fish camps, I happened to work at one of ...

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-496 An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Kicking Horse River and Clearwater River)

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Energy Efficiency in Government Buildings, Structures and Public Works Thank you, Mr. Chair. Indeed, I have lots of questions, and I won't possibly get them all in. Thanks for coming back. We thought it would ...

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on Energy Efficiency in Government Buildings, Structures and Public Works Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I do have a question for Mr. Dalgleish. Thank you to all four of you for your excellent testimony. We ...

Mentioned by iNews880.com Duncan thinks focus to changes to party policy "much ado about nothing" There is a small group of people that are the die hard, strong socialists," explains Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan. "There is no intention of moving away from being social democrats. My colleagues meet regularly with social democrats from around ...

Two months ago

Mentioned by London Free Press GUNTER: Hockey day in Canada idea wins fan Edmonton-Strathcona New Democrat MP Linda Duncan wants Parliament to pass a motion declaring a national hockey day in Canada each February. Duncan and I seldom agree, but she's right on this one. Duncan doesn't want to celebrate just the ...

Mentioned by iPolitics.ca (subscription) Morning Brief — March 27, 2013 The private member's bill by Edmonton MP Linda Duncan seeks to establish a non-statutory but somehow still special day on the third Friday in February. “My goal of celebrating National Hockey Day is to help encourage the participation of boys and girls in ...

Mentioned by NorthumberlandView.ca NDP tables bill to establish a National Hockey Day MP Linda Duncan (Edmonton – Strathcona) has tabled a Private Member's Bill calling for the establishment of a National Hockey Day. “Hockey is loved by Canadians of all ages across the country as our national winter sport,” said Duncan. “In community rinks ...

Mentioned by Ottawa Citizen National Hockey Day back on Parliament's agenda — for now "The whole intention is to encourage people to get out to their local hockey rink, or flood a rink in the backyard . . . and invite the neighbours over and have everybody come out and have fun," says Alberta MP Linda Duncan. Photograph by: Postmedia News, ...

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-488 An Act respecting a National Hockey Day

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-327 An Act to establish a national literacy policy

Statements in the House