Yesterday

Posted on Twitter I keep being asked by my constituents why are these Senators allowed to "sit as independants shouldn't they just quit?" #cdnpoli

Three days ago

Posted on Twitter Oops! Duffy claimed expenses while campaigning in Toronto in 2011, were there other senators doing the same?l #accountabilityfail #cdnpoli

This week

Posted on Twitter What a moving interview this am on cbc radio with the parents of Rowan Stringer poise,courage and love

Posted on Twitter Ground control to Major Tom (@Cmdr_Hadfield) welcome home! You made many of us feel like kids again full of inquiry and big imagination,

Posted on Twitter Best to @HarryBorlase tonight out in the "big land" #ndp

Posted on Twitter sincere condolences to friends and family of Rowan Stringer the 17 year old young woman who died yesterday also love to all @ John McCrae SS

A week ago

Spoke in the House on Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, last night the Minister of Foreign Affairs admitted Canada could and must do more in the crisis in Syria. We must do more diplomatically ...

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

Voted Yes on Vote #680 on Bill C-460 Respecting the implementation of the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada

Voted No on Vote #679 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Voted No on Vote #678 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Voted No on Vote #677 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Situation of Jewish Refugees from Middle Eastern Nations Thank you, Chair. Thank you to both of our witnesses for their testimony today. I want to start with you, Ms. Waldman. You gave us some ...

Spoke in the House on Situation in Syria Mr. Speaker, I rise with a heavy heart, like many in this place, as we debate again the situation in Syria. I say “again” because we ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Freedom of the Press Mr. Speaker, today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day and the essential work that journalists do to challenge the powerful and inform the public. Sadly, around ...

Spoke in the House on Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, we all want to protect our national interest here. We want to make sure we keep this asset in Montreal, but the minister needs ...

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Situation of Jewish Refugees from Middle Eastern Nations Thank you, Chair. Again, thank you to our guests for their testimony. I think the idea that most people are unaware of this is reflected in ...

Spoke in the House on Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, all of this could have been avoided if this minister actually listened to and worked with others. This is a question of either working ...

Spoke in the House on Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, he is fine to go along and get along with the dictators in Bahrain, but he will not fight for a seat on the ...

Spoke in the House on Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to Canadian assistance to Sudan and South Sudan going forward into the 2013-2014, 2014-2015, and 2015-2016 fiscal years: (a) what are the government's estimated ...

Mentioned by Macleans.ca The QP clip: Why Canada won't bid for a seat on the UN security council NDP MP Paul Dewar, his party's foreign affairs critic, stood with some confidence to ask Foreign Affair Minister John Baird why the government wouldn't bid for an open seat at the UN Security Council in 2014. In his reply, Baird mistakenly referred to Dewar as ...

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy and Main Estimates 2013-14: Votes 1, 5, 10, ... Thank you, Chair. Thank you to both ministers for your comments today and for your presence today. Minister Baird, I just want to start with a ...

Spoke in the House on Strengthening Military Justice in the Defence of Canada Act Mr. Speaker, it is interesting. We have this bill in front of us yet again. I know there is some frustration from the government side that ...

Two months ago

Mentioned by CBC.ca Conservatives defend withdrawal from UN drought 'talkfest' But Paul Dewar, the NDP's foreign affairs critic, said the convention was not about delivering programs. "This was about working collectively with other partners to better understand what happens with drought that leads to famine that leads to insecurity," ...

Mentioned by Yahoo! News Canada (blog) Canada quietly pulls out of UN convention to combat drought, desertification Withdrawing from the UN convention on desertification “shows … that the government is clearly outside of what is international norms here," NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar told CP. "We're ... Elizabeth May MP (@ElizabethMay) March 28, 2013 ...

Mentioned by NorthumberlandView.ca Conservatives further isolate Canada with withdrawal from UN Convention on ... “It's an issue that affects the survival of thousands of people across the planet,” said New Democrat Foreign Affairs critic Paul Dewar. “We were the first to sign this protocol and now we're the first and only country to withdraw. Today, the perception on the world ...

Mentioned by Macleans.ca Politics on TV: UN conventions and robocall legislation On Power & Politics, an MP panel of Chris Alexander, Paul Dewar and John McCallum looked at the issue, where Alexander rather petulantly said the move was about cost savings and achieving better results with other programs. Dewar noted that recently ...

Mentioned by CBC.ca Conservatives defend withdrawal from UN drought 'talkfest' But Paul Dewar, the NDP's foreign affairs critic, said the convention was not about delivering programs. "This was about working collectively with other partners to better understand what happens with drought that leads to famine that leads to insecurity," ...

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-486 An Act respecting corporate practices relating to the extraction, processing, purchase, trade and use of conflict minerals from the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy I'm saying that because ,as important as it is to hear from officials, the chair of the Arctic Council will be our minister, and I would ...

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy One of the things I noted when I went north of 60 is that the use of diesel is ubiquitous, and the effects to human health ...

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy I say that because we were hoping that we'd actually have representatives from the embassies of those countries here. But sadly the government doesn't want to ...

Three months ago

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy Thank you. Thank you to our witness for getting up early and for providing us with some context as to our study on the Arctic. I ...

Spoke at the Foreign Affairs committee on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy So it's ongoing. I'm curious, because as we take over the chair in May, it's obviously important that we have our position, from our country, on ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-572 An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Budget Officer)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-571 An Act respecting corporate practices relating to the purchase of minerals from the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-570 An Act respecting the labelling of food products containing sodium

Statements in the House