Today

Posted on Twitter @bobraeMP Thank you for 35 yrs of public service & your commitment to the people of First Nations. Enjoy the summer with Arlene.

Yesterday

Spoke in the House on Petitions Mr. Speaker, the third petition is from people in Oshawa who note that the Oshawa Port Authority is ruining the city's waterfront with a 12-storey ethanol ...

Didn't vote on Vote #760 on Bill C-54 Amend the Criminal Code and the National Defence Act (mental disorder)

Voted No on Vote #759 That the debate be now adjourned.

Voted No on Vote #758 on Bill C-49 Amend the Museums Act in order to establish the Canadian Museum of History and to ...

Voted Yes on Vote #757 on Bill C-49 Amend the Museums Act in order to establish the Canadian Museum of History and to ...

Two days ago

Voted No on Vote #756 on Bill C-49 Amend the Museums Act in order to establish the Canadian Museum of History and to ...

Posted on Twitter Voted for the 48th time against Conservatives cutting off debate. Discussion of this Bill was cut off only after 1 hr of debate #nodemocracy

Posted on Twitter Meetings with Mayors, Councillors, townhalls w Canadians all part of my national transit strategy initiative since: http://t.co/LRstnZmpSV

Posted on Twitter Mayor @Nenshi and I met in Vancouver about #nationaltransitstrategy & his cities need for federal support. Sentiment echoed by @MayorGregor

Posted on Twitter Calgary Mayor @Nenshi coming to Ottawa to speak about the importance of long term predictable transit funding @GetCanadaMoving

Posted on Twitter Congratulations also to John Tory, the 2nd City Champion Award winner for his passionate work as Chair of CivicAction http://t.co/3FdwT6PqaC

This week

Mentioned by Post Few Canadians have adequate support - Regina Leader Olivia Chow, the late Jack Layton's wife and Toronto MP, believes all Canadians deserve the same humane and dignified care at the end of life as Solace and Sarah received on Jan. 5, 2012. "Just as the birth of a baby receives comprehensive care and ...

Mentioned by Post Few Canadians have adequate support - Regina Leader Olivia Chow, the late Jack Layton's wife and Toronto MP, believes all Canadians deserve the same humane and dignified care at the end of life as Solace and Sarah received on Jan. 5, 2012. "Just as the birth of a baby receives comprehensive care and ...

Mentioned by Post Few Canadians have the palliative support Layton did, says Olivia Chow - Regina Leader Olivia Chow, the late Jack Layton's wife and Toronto MP, believes all Canadians deserve the same humane and dignified care at the end of life as Solace and Sarah received on Jan. 5, 2012. “Just as the birth of a baby receives comprehensive care and ...

Mentioned by Huffington Post Canada Doug Ford Takes Swipe At Olivia Chow Over Phone Town Hall Meetings Outspoken Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford has taken another swipe at Olivia Chow, the popular NDP MP who may challenge his brother for mayor in 2014. In fact, Ford questioned whether she has already broken election laws. The Etobicoke councillor ...

Mentioned by Huffington Post Canada Doug Ford Takes Swipe At Olivia Chow Over Phone Town Hall Meetings Outspoken Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford has taken another swipe at Olivia Chow, the popular NDP MP who may challenge his brother for mayor in 2014. In fact, Ford questioned whether she has already broken election laws. The Etobicoke councillor ...

Mentioned by National Post MP Olivia Chow accused of using her position as transit critic to launch a ... Two Toronto councillors are questioning whether Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow is using her position as federal transit and infrastructure critic to start premature campaigning for the 2014 mayoral election. Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong said he had ...

A week ago

Spoke in the House on Transportation Safety Mr. Speaker, three people lost their lives in the VIA crash in Burlington. Yesterday, I asked the Conservatives to stop ignoring the Transportation Safety Board's recommendations ...

Spoke in the House on Transportation Safety Mr. Speaker, three engineers paid with their lives when VIA derailed in Burlington. For a decade, the Transportation Safety Board has asked the minister to mandate ...

Spoke in the House on Chinese Canadians Mr. Speaker, many generations of immigrants have established themselves in Canada by operating restaurants, stores and supermarkets. They provide affordable food and household goods to thousands ...

Spoke in the House on Ethics Mr. Speaker, obviously keeping Mike Duffy's expenses quiet is a partisan move, and only Conservatives have a $90,000 payout orchestrated out of the Prime Minister's Office. ...

Spoke at the Transport committee on How Competition Can Make Infrastructure Dollars Go Further Mr. Miller or Mr. Perrin, are you suggesting that the federal government should tell different municipalities, different territories, different provincial governments what to do? The Conservative ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Main Estimates 2013-14 Mr. Speaker, this debate tonight is not about a few bad apples in a barrel; it is about the fact that the entire barrel is a ...

Spoke in the House on Helen Lu Mr. Speaker, I stand to honour the mother of charities Helen Lu, better known in Toronto as “Mama Lu”. Nothing gave Helen Lu greater pleasure and ...

Spoke in the House on Petitions Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present, and the first is from petitioners from the city of Toronto. As summer is upon us and a ...

Spoke at the Transport committee on How Competition Can Make Infrastructure Dollars Go Further Mr. Clements, I take it you haven't quite finished talking about what you recommend we do. One of the things we debated about a year or ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke at the Transport committee on How Competition Can Make Infrastructure Dollars Go Further Thank you. Mr. Kelly, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Construction Association, the Canada West Foundation, the Toronto Region Board of Trade, the Greater Toronto ...

A month ago

Spoke at the Transport committee on How Competition Can Make Infrastructure Dollars Go Further Thank you. My question is to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. FCM has asked for dedicated funding. That didn't happen. We're still in a grant lottery ...

Spoke at the Human Resources committee on Subject Matter of Clauses 161 to 166 (Immigration and Refugee Protection Act) ... Thank you. The Auditor General's report a few years ago said that there was no evaluation of the temporary foreign worker program and that it may ...

Spoke at the Transport committee on How Competition Can Make Infrastructure Dollars Go Further What kind of infrastructure projects are you most in favour of? We've heard from small municipalities talking about waste water. They're in a desperate situation. They ...

Spoke at the Procedure and House Affairs committee on Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for British Columbia 2012, Report ... Thank you. I'm sorry that the map is not in front of you, but I actually handed out a map. What I have given you is ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Transport committee on How Competition Can Make Infrastructure Dollars Go Further There are two ways that the federal government transfers money. One, as you know, is through the gas tax, which is basically an agreement. It's a ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-441 An Act to amend the Canada Transportation Act (shippers' protection)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-344 An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (side guards)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-305 An Act to establish a National Public Transit Strategy

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-639 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (universal child care benefit)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-615 An Act to establish a National Public Transit Strategy

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-604 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (appeal process for temporary resident visa applicants)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-566 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (sponsorship of relative)

Statements in the House