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Petitions Mr. Speaker, the second is a petition on gender-based violence. It highlights that there are some who prefer a boy over a girl, and through the use of sex selection, women and girls are being discriminated against. They are calling upon Parliament to condemn discrimination
March 19th, 2019House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to present two petitions. The first is a petition from REAL Women, an organization of women and men who support faith-based groups that are being discriminated against. The petition is signed by hundreds of constituents, and it highlights the need
October 22nd, 2018House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Latin American Heritage Month Act this and to create an environment where Canadians have a future, not only this generation. I have five children and 10 grandchildren. I want to wish all the fathers a very happy Father's Day coming up. We have a responsibility as men and women in the House to create an environment where not only
June 13th, 2018House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Human Resources committee continues to age we need to prepare for the challenges that seniors, especially senior women, face. That's because women live longer. That's why budget 2018 proposes to provide $75 million through the Public Health Agency of Canada to support the healthy seniors pilot project. Dr. McRae
May 9th, 2018Committee meeting
Mark WarawaConservative
Privilege Evangelical Free Church, Brookwood Baptist Church, North Langley Community Church, Willoughby Church, Riverside Calvary Chapel, Loft Country, Living Waters, and Power to Change. There was one additional group, which was providing jobs for recovering young women. It was teaching them how
March 27th, 2018House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Business of Supply an example. There is a woodworking shop that wants to help women who are recovering from addiction. It is not going to be able to provide these jobs and training to these young women students, because they will not bow the knee to the Liberal ideology. That is wrong.
March 1st, 2018House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Salaries Act . That starts with encouraging women and girls to get involved with politics much more than in the past. I am really excited seeing the pages here today; many of them are female. I could not do my job as a member of Parliament without my partner, my wife of 45 years, Diane. When I am
December 7th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Human Resources committee that in addition to working with committees and opposition parties and members, you're to work with the President of the Treasury Board, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Minister of Infrastructure, the Minister of Status of Women—you've been promoted from
November 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Mark WarawaConservative
Cannabis Act Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for the incredible work she did previously as the minister for seniors. As I mentioned earlier, there are more women seniors in Canada than men seniors, and it is the largest-growing demographic in Canada. The previous government
June 7th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Cannabis Act Mr. Speaker, the previous government recognized the importance of representation for Canadian seniors. Uniquely, there are more Canadian seniors than youth. In the mix of Canadian seniors, there are more women than men. I was honoured that the member in front of me
June 7th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the other petition is with respect to sex selection. The petition highlights the fact that ultrasounds are being used to determine the sex of the preborn child, and if it is a girl, tragically, the pregnancy ends. It notes that discrimination against women and girls
June 5th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Status of Women committee Thank you. I've had the incredible honour in my life to work with amazing women. I was raised by a very strong, wonderful, intelligent mother, and I married an incredible woman. Then in my career, I worked for the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. I was an entrepreneur
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Mark WarawaConservative
Committees of the House Madam Speaker, sunny days are over. We have a member who is quite bitter, it appears to me, and is making comments that really are not based on fact. The previous government was the government that took our Canadian veterans and our brave men and women from the decade
May 10th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Instruction to Committee on Bill C-243 to protect moms. The member has brought up a very important point. It is not just welding. That is what Bill C-243 is focusing on: women who are in high-risk vocations like welding and the contaminants in the air involved with welding. We heard testimony that any strenuous job could
April 11th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Instruction to Committee on Bill C-243 . It also talks about listening to Canadian women who have chosen to have a baby and the challenges that they face. We have had two meetings so far, and the witnesses we heard from gave us a lot of important new information. We heard about the challenges that women face while pregnant
April 11th, 2017House debate
Mark WarawaConservative