Electoral Participation Act  Madam Speaker, to follow up on that point, it seems like we have two options here. One is to get rid of the bill altogether because there is one provision in it that is inappropriate. The other is to continue with the bill that has many important elements in it, for example, making it easier for folks to vote at advance polls, and then at committee, as is often the case here, to address the problematic provision.

Electoral Participation Act  Madam Speaker, I will start by making clear that Greens support this bill, notwithstanding this one silly provision with respect to pensions. We, too, will be working across party lines to remove that from this bill. When it comes to time allocation, by my count, a total of five members have spoken to this bill at second reading.

Supplementary Estimates (A), 2024-25  Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting yes.

Supplementary Estimates (A), 2024-25  Mr. Speaker, the Greens agree, and we will be voting yes.

Main Estimates 2024-25  Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.

Supplementary Estimates (A), 2024-25  Mr. Speaker, the Greens agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.

Supplementary Estimates (A), 2024-25  Mr. Speaker, the Greens agree to apply the vote and will be voting yea.

Main Estimates 2024-25  Mr. Speaker, Greens agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yea, in favour.

Privilege  Madam Speaker, I am rising to speak to the question of privilege raised by the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre regarding the recent comments made by the hon. member for Saskatoon West. I understand you are currently considering this. I would like to urge you to give this question strong consideration.

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary is a friend, and I know he is speaking from the heart, but if he and others in the government are calling the benefit a major milestone but the disability community, the community that is meant to be supported by the benefit, is not, we have problems here.

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I am back again tonight to continue calling on the government to fix the Canada disability benefit. To sum up where we are now, this is critical because 40% of the people living in poverty across the country are folks with disabilities. This is the case because provincial and territorial programs are all below the poverty line.

Persons With Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, the government repeatedly said that the Canada disability benefit would lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. In doing so, it gave the disability community hope, but now we know it was all a charade. Documents recently tabled show, by the government's own estimates, that less than 2% of folks with disabilities will be lifted above the poverty line, and not until 2028.

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, artists and creatives are deeply underfunded in my community and much of the gap is federal. While Waterloo region received just over $3 a person from the Canada Council for the Arts last year, other communities received up to $21 a person. It adds up to a $13-million gap last year alone.

Housing  Madam Speaker, I appreciate that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, at the end of his remarks, got to the question of this investment. The issue is that this investment was committed to two years ago. It has been two years since the government finally announced that it was going to get back into the business of building co-ops, and it has not built any.

Housing  Madam Speaker, tonight, I am glad to have a chance to continue pressing for badly needed investments in predictable, ongoing and significant investments for deeply affordable housing with a real focus on co-op housing. It is critical because we are in a housing crisis. One of the reasons for that crisis is that Canada has the lowest percentage of deeply affordable social housing stock in the G7.