National Council for Reconciliation Act   to end the housing crisis on first nations. Despite all their bluster, big oil does not need to beg the government for handouts. Galen Weston certainly does not. Bell gets all the money it needs to give away in fat bonuses and shareholder dividends while laying off thousands

The Budget   to the point today, the Conservatives identify an economic crisis but deny that there is a climate one. The Liberals acknowledge a climate crisis but fail to fully recognize an economic one. Only Canada's New Democrats firmly understand that Canada faces both an economic crisis

Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999   the Liberals in the chamber have not knocked on any doors lately or talked to Canadians, which we know is true, Canadians are suffering in the worst inflationary crisis in my lifetime. Two million Canadians are using a food bank. One in four Canadians are skipping meals because of the cost

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the ongoing national crisis must come to an end. No one knows this better than the families of those who have lost their loved ones to this crisis. That is why we are working with indigenous partners in leveraging budget 2024 with an investment of $1.3 million to co

National Council for Reconciliation Act   in real time resources not being able to get to communities, and it is a becoming a crisis, yet the government has failed to act. How concerned are communities in the north about the failure of governments to deal with this growing crisis?

Petitions  Madam Speaker, I rise today to present petition e-4765. It was initiated by Michael Lawson, and it addresses the humanitarian crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Fifty-two hundred Canadians signed this petition, calling on the Government of Canada to increase

Health committee   us the opportunity to speak today. We're here to provide perspective and information about the impact the opioid crisis is having on policing for the RCMP in British Columbia. I'll explain our role, our training, our challenges and some recent investigative findings. Since 2015

The Budget  , it is resorting to thinning the walls. I looked through the budget very carefully. Everyone says we are in a productivity crisis. The government acknowledges it. I went through the budget, and there is no GDP per capita chart. We are in a productivity crisis, and the government does not care

Health committee  , on January 31, 2023. The exemption is part of a three-year pilot project that aims to take a health-led approach to substance use, as opposed to one led by the criminal justice system. In British Columbia, we know all too well the severity of the toxic drug death crisis. Yesterday marked

The Budget  . There is no two ways about this. The Liberals' policies are responsible for driving people deeper and deeper into financial crisis. Financial crises and financial issues generally have two different sides to them, as does the affordability crisis. We have income on one side and expenses

The Budget   into increased living standards. This is a real crisis. From 2000 to 2023, the growth rate of Canada's real per person GDP was 0.7%. That is meaningfully worse than the G7 average of 1% and the United States', whose GDP per person growth rate was 1.2%, almost double. Our country is facing

Privilege   this is one of the key measures that we need to put in place, to have this ability to adapt our processes when they're not working. On October 19, 2023, Mr. Stewart stated at PROC about the failure of the system to ensure that the minister received the IMU, “The first question I answered

Natural Resources committee   up their cars, heating their homes and feeding their families and putting food on the table. Even to the recognition of some of the members across the way and their own counterparts, last year—I think it was in October—the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal MP, Mr. McDonald, from

Women and Gender Equality  Mr. Speaker, while the finance minister celebrates so-called feminist policies in this year's budget, in rural Manitoba, the Liberals have cut all funding for counselling and legal services for survivors of sexual violence at the Survivor's Hope Crisis Centre. Time and time

The Budget   not understand indigenous rights, in terms of the right of first refusal, particularly around resource extraction. He also has a very clear plan to eliminate any sort of public health response to the overdose crisis. In fact, he cited indigenous peoples and our traditions as the way forward