Today

Posted on Twitter Closing victories Sable Isl Natl Park, amended same sex divorce, end to Cons attack on citizenship, real action on MP expenses #ndp #cdnpoli

Yesterday

Spoke in the House on Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord. I rise tonight to speak in favour of Bill C-54 at third reading. ...

Voted No 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 ...

This week

Posted on Twitter Happy to be in Saskatoon for Pride today and forum on trans rights tomorrow, but we need some sun soon #canqueer #yxe #ndp #cdnpoli #trans

Spoke in the House on Tackling Contraband Tobacco Act Mr. Speaker, I want to start with a bit of personal history. Many lives were saved in my family by my grandfather. In 1964, there was ...

A week ago

Posted on Twitter Happy Philippine Independence Day. Mabuhay Philippines! #yyj

Spoke in the House on The Environment Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government has developed a bad habit of gutting environmental protection in my riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca and across Canada. Last year, ...

Spoke in the House on Tackling Contraband Tobacco Act Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt that all Canadians should share the concern about contraband tobacco and keeping tobacco out of the hands of kids. However, ...

Spoke in the House on Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have misplaced priorities when it comes to RCMP reform as well. Last week the minister refused to distance himself from Commissioner Paulson's ...

Posted on Twitter One more step toward equality for transgender Canadians C-279 was just approved by the Senate Human Rights Committee. #cdnpoli #ndp #LGBT

Posted on Twitter Great Bucaneer Days Parade this am. Esquimalt rocks. #cdnpoli #ndp

Posted on Twitter Proud to stand on steps in front of Parliament just a few minutes ago with Canadian veterans to remember the sacrifices on D-Day. #cdnpoli

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Public Safety Mr. Speaker, from oil spills to firearms, the current Conservative government has put public safety at risk again and again through its inaction. The Minister of ...

Spoke in the House on Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1 Mr. Speaker, I will start by saying how quickly they forget. There are a lot of members in the Conservative Party who came from a Reform ...

Spoke in the House on Safer Witnesses Act Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise to speak on this bill today, and with a lot of relief, in that the government ...

Mentioned by Xtra.ca Federal trans bill passes second reading in the Senate After a week of debate that saw senators speak for and against NDP MP Randall Garrison's federal trans rights bill, C-279 passed second reading in the Senate May 29 and will now go to the standing Senate committee on human rights. The bill would add ...

A month ago

Mentioned by Victoria News Garrison puts Goldstream River up for federal protection Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Randall Garrison introduced a private member's bill to change the status of Goldstream River and offer it greater protection federally. Garrison based the bill on concerns from constituents, who didn't like the fact the river no longer ...

Mentioned by Victoria News Saanich's Surjit Bhandal allowed to stay in Canada “I was very happy to learn that Bhandal will be allowed to stay in Canada with her family,” said Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Randall Garrison, who spearheaded the efforts to convince Citizenship and Immigration Canada to allow her to stay, in a press release ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Briefing on Security of Rail Transport Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Let me assure everybody that I'm going to have a very specific question for VIA Rail, but given some of ...

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-509 An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Goldstream River)

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing In terms of users of your courses, I know that in post-secondary education we've talked about alternative methods to delivery. The presumption was that people in ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing Thank you, and I couldn't agree with you more that this kind of knowledge information is very important. I'll go back to the question of diversity. ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to both of our witnesses for being here today. When we look at the title of the divisions, ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thanks to both the witnesses for being here today. I want to start with a question to Chief Knecht. You ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to both our witnesses for being here today. I found the alternative models that you're talking about very interesting. ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing It's a constant that we're hearing now from witnesses in policing that the current model is not sustainable. I'm interested in your committee on the future ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all three of our witness who are here today. In particular I want to go back to ...

Three months ago

Mentioned by iPolitics.ca (subscription) It's important for MPs to hold government to account, sort of NDP MP Randall Garrison asked. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson stood up and gave a curious answer. “We have a bill before Parliament right now on non-resident divorces that fix some of the problems in the bill that was originally introduced by the Liberal ...

Mentioned by Ottawa Citizen MPs trip to UK, California to study policing methods called a waste of taxpayer ... Conservative MP Kevin Sorenson, the committee's chair, said in an interview last week that policing costs in this country have doubled over the last decade and that it's vital that officials look for ways to maintain public safety while keeping costs under control. “We just want to find out the best way that we can continue a high ... Opposition members support the trips and will form part of the travelling delegations, NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison said last week. Dquan(at)Postmedia.com. Twitter.com/dougquan ...

Mentioned by Macleans.ca (blog) Politics on TV: Robocalls, Warawa and drug seizures Responding to the report was an MP panel of Candice Bergen, Randall Garrison and Francis Scarpaleggia, where Bergen noted that the government had increased the number of front-line officers, said that cuts were to redundant positions, and then tested ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-435 An Act to amend the Civil Marriage Act (divorce and corollary relief)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-397 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (golfing expenses)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-279 An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)

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