Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023  This is an economic statement that is about fairness, not just fairness for today, but fairness for generations to come. I have been continuing to work with my constituents over these past eight years as a member of Parliament. I have a very active youth council of dynamic members who keep me updated on what is important to them in this generation.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Madam Speaker, fairness across generations is the quintessential Canadian promise that every individual deserves an equal opportunity, with hard work, determination and a little support, to join the middle class, to secure savings, to purchase a home, to grow a family, and to enjoy retirement and their golden years in dignity.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, when I think of Bill C-69, I think of a sense of fairness for generations X and Z, and the millennials, and how important it is that, as a government, we provide hope. We have seen this put into practice over the years in budgetary and legislative measures that provide that sense of hope for all, recognizing how critically important Canada's middle class is, and those aspiring to be a part of it.

The Budget  We will realize that the billions of dollars that the federal government is raking in with a tax measure that may indeed be effective are being used not to balance the budget after the extremely expensive pandemic measures or to restore fairness between generations, but purely to trample on Quebec's rights, to interfere in Quebec's affairs and to meddle not only in areas that are none of the federal government's business, but in jurisdictions in which it is notoriously incompetent, such as health care, dental care and housing.

The Budget  They see the effects of big government, suffocating regulations and reckless spending. It is anything but fair. This generational injustice has 62% of Canadians aged 18 to 34 giving up on owning a home. That number is 73% for those who are 35 to 54 years old. Taxes are going up more than $20 billion. The GST now only covers debt payment interest.

Finance committee  In your opinion, how do you think a land value tax would help with the predictability, fairness and general distribution of cost across municipalities? Reflecting, to the best of your ability, sir, without expecting to be an expert on the matter, the way in which particularly commercial property taxes have been shifted in their way to residential property taxes, how do you feel this would alleviate some of those discrepancies?

National Defence committee  Ultimately, each witness represents their own views in terms of fairness. Obviously, my office is responsible for promoting fairness more generally and broadly. What we try to do is essentially ensure that, where there are domestic processes that are allowed to seek only Canadian participants, it is seen as a fair process.

Industry committee  Then, should the government not proceed with a regulatory approach, we would be proposing amendments to the bill that would effectively address fairness factors generally speaking, some of which Mr. Hatfield spoke to: putting parameters around what “repair” means—diagnosis, maintenance and repair—blocking that in and setting out factors that would basically address what classes of products would benefit from the right to repair in a manner that is consistent with both CUSMA and the WIPO Internet Treaties, including whether there is substantial evidence to demonstrate that, in fact, circumvention is needed in order to facilitate the right to repair in a manner that does not result in infringement.

Environment committee  Very quickly, the principle of non-regression is borrowed from international human rights law and prohibits backsliding or the weakening of environmental protections, once granted, in the absence of a scientific basis. The principle of intergenerational equity simply requires fairness among generations in the use and conservation of ecosystems and natural resources.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We strongly oppose abuse by agents and members of the public that would take advantage of our fair and generous immigration system. Regarding the authorization of foreign health insurance, CILA acknowledges that additional competition in the insurance industry may benefit Canadian citizens, permanent residents and their parents and grandparents who apply for super visas.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you, Madam Damoff. I've been very fair and generous with the time, but I'm going to go to Madam Kwan. You have something to add.

Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2020  It is part 7, the massive increase in borrowing, we cannot support, especially when the minister has been unable or unwilling to explain how that additional borrowing capacity, some $663 billion, will be deployed going forward. Canadians are fair, reasonable, generous people. All they are looking for is ethical and competent leadership, transparent leadership, to help them emerge from this crisis. So far, they have not been getting it, and they deserve better.

Business of Supply  I am sure members in all parties of the House have similar stories about immigration to this country. Also, because Canadians are fair and generous, we also believe in and support our policies on refugees and asylum seekers, people who have been dispossessed. That is why subsequent and successive Conservative and Liberal governments have taken in refugees from Hungary, from Vietnam, today from Syria, and other people who are dispossessed, such as Yazidis.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've seen that there are huge costs, and they are growing, but they are not growing perhaps as much as the overall when we take into account the physicians, drug spending, and that sort of thing as the basis or the 2% as the health spending per year on aging. What would be a fair compromise or a fair solution? Canada is a pretty fair and generous country, as we all know, in these areas. Is there a limit? How would we deal with this? Given that there are huge costs already for these 900 persons, there's some suggestion here that there may be a saving from not having to put them through all the paperwork we put them through.

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, New Democrats have fought for tax fairness for generations, so we welcome the Liberals to the conversation with open arms. Yet, in typical Liberal fashion, they have somehow managed to screw up the consultation and decided to focus only on small business.