Today

Posted on Twitter Children of Sathya Sai school doing their #unity dance--values of #peace #truth #Love #Non-Violence and #RightConduct http://t.co/UbGX03MLYE

Posted on Twitter Here w/ Dr. Revathi and Dr. Thayaparan here for the #Walk4Values -- I'm walking for #Love today http://t.co/f3nXm9X0Xb

Posted on Twitter LOL! Guess we can't say no to #panda for sure now! RT: @VonKrausewitz: Never Say No To Panda @RathikaS @jonathantaub http://t.co/fD65CTiteT

Yesterday

Posted on Twitter Proud to be supporting @MohamedNDP for @LondonWestNDP #ndp #ondp Here's the FB post: http://t.co/WAF8GkG6GF

Three days ago

Posted on Twitter Just met #DaoMao who came out into the exhibit here at the #TorontoZoo in #ScarboroughRouge http://t.co/0ik2IMWLsM

Posted on Twitter Waiting w/ @JonathanTaub for the #GiantPanda exhibit event to start here at the #TorontoZoo #TOpoli #cdnpoli http://t.co/s90lOizYPE

A week ago

Didn't vote on Vote #681 on Bill S-213 Respecting a national day of remembrance to honour Canadian veterans of the Korean War

Didn't vote on Vote #680 on Bill C-460 Respecting the implementation of the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada

Didn't vote on Vote #679 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Didn't vote on Vote #678 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Didn't vote on Vote #677 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Spoke in the House on Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1 Mr. Speaker, my question to my colleague is following my meeting last night with many people of the ethno-culturally diverse press as they were celebrating the ...

Spoke in the House on Situation in Syria Mr. Speaker, it is almost midnight and we are here debating because there is a civil war happening in Syria and we do need multilateral engagement ...

Two weeks ago

Mentioned by Brantford Expositor Conference for leaders of tomorrow held in Brantford Brant NDP federal candidate of record Marc Laferriere and Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the MP for Scarborough-Rouge River, speak with Ryan Jamula of Brantford, president of the provincial NDP riding association. Sitsabaiesan, the youngest MP in Ontario, was ...

Spoke in the House on Employment Mr. Speaker, tinkering around the edges will not help today's youth find a job. That is not even a plan. When we actually look at the ...

Spoke at the Procedure and House Affairs committee on Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario 2012 Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission has had a very challenging task, and I sincerely appreciate the work that the commission has done ...

Spoke in the House on Employment Mr. Speaker, the crisis of youth unemployment is knocking on the front door, but that minister is ignoring the problem. No one is home. The fact ...

Spoke in the House on Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, I am happy to participate in the concurrence motion today. As a member of the citizenship and immigration committee, I was there day in ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke at the Agriculture committee on Thursday, April 25th I also want to commend you in taking that risk as an entrepreneur, trying to revive an older brand that is a Canadian icon from years ...

Spoke at the Citizenship and Immigration committee on Expenditure Plans for Citizenship and Immigration in 2012-13 and Main Estimates 2013-14: ... Thank you, Mr. Chair. The supplementary estimates include a transfer from the Treasury Board to the IRB. I was heartened to actually read that the IRB ...

Spoke in the House on Employment With respect, Mr. Speaker, I am not sure blaming the opposition is a wise recovery plan for the government. These are real problems that will cost ...

Spoke in the House on Employment Mr. Speaker, Conservative budgets and all of their initiatives consistently fail Canadian youth. Of course we voted against it. Even if the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration ...

A month ago

Spoke at the Citizenship and Immigration committee on Bill C-425, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (honouring the Canadian ... Thank you. You spoke quite a bit about the revocation of citizenship for people who were born in Canada, and only know Canada as home, but ...

Spoke at the Citizenship and Immigration committee on Bill C-425, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (honouring the Canadian ... Thank you. Residents of Scarborough—I'm a member from Scarborough—are eager to become citizens of our country. Citizenship applicants face longer wait times than ever before. The ...

Spoke in the House on Citizenship and Immigration Mr. Speaker, the Conservative cuts to the interim federal health program have left vulnerable newcomers in a very precarious and difficult position in Canada. The interim ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Citizenship and Immigration committee on Bill C-425, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (honouring the Canadian ... Thank you, because that's what this stage of the committee is about, to actually look at the bill and see how we.... As parliamentarians, we have ...

Mentioned by National Post NDP turns fire on Status of Women minister, asks her to apologize for ... The call came after NDP MP Megan Leslie failed to get Ashfield to clarify the context in which his comment would be acceptable. Sean Kilpatrick / CP files. “Instead of ... Rathika Sitsabaiesan (@RathikaS) March 25, 2013. Wow. Minister Ashfield, that was the ...

Mentioned by Macleans.ca Warawa and Rathgeber take off their muzzles Worth Noting: Power Play's Commons Folk segment featured NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the first Tamil MP in Canada, who says that she helps to highlight human rights abuses being suffered in Sri Lanka. Liberal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay ...

Mentioned by National Post No apology from Tory cabinet minister for telling high school student leader she'll ... The comment was interrupted as sexist by some bloggers and during Monday's question period, NDP MP Megan Leslie of Halifax asked Ashfield to confirm he made the comments. “I'm glad the ... Rathika Sitsabaiesan (@RathikaS) March 25, 2013. Wow.

Spoke at the Citizenship and Immigration committee on Supplementary Estimates (C) 2012-13: Votes 1c and 5c under CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION ... It seems we need to look into a lot. I just wanted to make sure it's not just another bill that puts more discretionary power in ...

Three months ago

Mentioned by Macleans.ca Mitchel Raphael on health and hats on Parliament Hill Is the Hill bad for your health? Over the break, Toronto NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan was able to take a week's vacation in the Dominican Republic. She says she ate lots and enjoyed some drinks. She came back and was shocked to discover she lost 10 lb.

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-471 An Act to designate the month of January as Tamil Heritage Month

Mentioned by Macleans.ca (blog) The very normal first day back in the House Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP MP from Scarborough-Rouge River, eventually rose to speak. I watched the official timer count down as her allotted 10 minutes ticked away, wondering if she'd pull off a perfectly timed speech. She came within seconds.

Spoke at the Canadian Heritage committee on Study on the Canadian Entertainment Software Industry Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to all of our witnesses for appearing today. As Mr. Brown said, there's a high level of passion that we ...

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-265 An Act to establish criteria and conditions in respect of funding for post-secondary education programs in order to ensure the quality, accessibility, public administration and accountability of those programs

Statements in the House