A week ago

Mentioned by Fort Frances Times Tories boast record on private MP bills Public Safety minister Vic Toews made the claim yesterday as he announced official government support for yet another tough-on-offenders bill put forward by a Tory backbencher. Hunt Sunset Country. view counter. “In fact, private members' bills have been ...

Spoke in the House on Questions on the Order Paper Mr. Speaker, as of March 25, 2013, the sale of the Crown land owned by CSC located on Frontenac Institution in Kingston, Ontario, has yet to ...

Mentioned by Winnipeg Free Press Tories back record number of private MP bills but critics warn of poor oversight Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made the claim Wednesday as he announced official government support for yet another tough-on-offenders bill put forward by a Tory backbencher. "In fact, private member's bills have been used more successfully by private ...

Mentioned by Vancouver Sun Tories back record number of private MP bills but critics warn of poor oversight Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made the claim Wednesday as he announced official government support for yet another tough-on-offenders bill put forward by a Tory backbencher. "In fact, private member's bills have been used more successfully by private ...

Mentioned by 680 News Tories back record number of private MP bills but critics warn of poor oversight Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made the claim Wednesday as he announced official government support for yet another tough-on-offenders bill put forward by a Tory backbencher. “In fact, private member's bills have been used more successfully by private ...

Mentioned by Ottawa Citizen Tories back record number of private MP bills but critics warn of poor oversight Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made the claim Wednesday as he announced official government support for yet another tough-on-offenders bill put forward by a Tory backbencher. "In fact, private member's bills have been used more successfully by private ...

Mentioned by Marketwire (press release) Harper Government Reinforces Support for Victims of Crime - Marketwire OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 8, 2013) - Today, the Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety; David Sweet, Member of Parliament for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale, and Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu; announced the ... Bill C-479, the Fairness for Victims Act, introduced in the House of Commons by MP David Sweet, proposes to increase the period within which the Parole Board of Canada (PBC) must conduct detention reviews following a detention order and parole reviews following ...

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

Voted No on Vote #680 on Bill C-460 Respecting the implementation of the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada

Voted Yes on Vote #679 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Voted Yes on Vote #678 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Voted Yes on Vote #677 on Bill S-8 Respecting the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mr. Speaker, as I understand it, there was no attempt made to stop that individual from testifying. Issues with respect to human resources and the management ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mr. Speaker, the Commissioner of the RCMP will meet with whom he chooses when he chooses. It is also appropriate that he approve meetings of his ...

A month ago

Spoke in the House on Public Safety Mr. Speaker, the first job of any government is to keep Canadians safe from those to wish to harm us, and this is a responsibility our ...

Spoke in the House on Public Safety Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the question. I want to express my deepest sympathies to the families of those who lost their lives in ...

Spoke in the House on Questions on the Order Paper Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a), CSC operates 57 federal correctional institutions across Canada ranging from minimum to maximum security, 16 community correctional centres and 84 ...

Two months ago

Spoke in the House on The Environment Of course, Mr. Speaker, we will wait to see what happens, but I am very confident that the Emergency Measures Organization in Manitoba that is on ...

Spoke in the House on Aboriginal Affairs Mr. Speaker, I was pleased to announce that our Conservative government will be providing stable, long-term funding for first nations policing. Spending on first nations policing ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Main Estimates 2013-14: Vote 25 under PRIVY COUNCIL and Votes 1, 5, ... Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Indeed, it is my pleasure to be here to again share an hour or so with all of the members ...

Three months ago

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Economics of Policing and Bill C-51, An Act to amend the Witness ... Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, committee members, for the invitation to appear before this committee to assist you with your deliberations on Bill C-51, ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Government bill C-51 An Act to amend the Witness Protection Program Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Supplementary Estimates (B) 2012-2013: Votes 1b, 5b, 10b, 45b, 50b and 55b ... Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My staff and the officials will be here for another hour after 4:30. I'm pleased that the committee has shown ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act ... Thank you, Mr. Chair, for your invitation to speak about Bill C-42, the Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act. I am pleased to be accompanied ...

Introduced legislation Government bill C-42 An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Electronic Monitoring and Proposed Firearms Information Regulations (Non-restricted Firearms) Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'm very pleased to appear before you and committee members to discuss new proposed regulations pursuant to the Firearms Act. Our ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Briefing on Counter-Terrorism Strategy Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Members, as you know, I'm always pleased to appear before this committee, and I'm happy to have the opportunity to ...

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Main Estimates 2012-13: Vote 30 under PRIVY COUNCIL and Votes 1, 5, ... Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. l'm very pleased to have had this invitation to appear here to discuss the Public Safety portfolio's ...

Spoke at the Procedure and House Affairs committee on Question of Privilege Relating to Threats to the Member for Provencher Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, colleagues. I sincerely wish that the circumstances surrounding my appearance today did not exist. On February 29, I rose ...

Introduced legislation Government bill C-30 An Act to enact the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act and to amend the Criminal Code and other Acts

Introduced legislation Government bill C-19 An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act

Introduced legislation Government bill C-4 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act and the Marine Transportation Security Act

Introduced legislation Government bill C-59 An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (accelerated parole review) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Introduced legislation Government bill C-52 An Act regulating telecommunications facilities to support investigations

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