Foreign Affairs committee  Gentlemen, thank you so much for being here and for providing your comments and sharing your knowledge. I should say, Mr. Potoczny, that your representative in Alberta, Vitaliy Milentyev, is my cousin, and he has been keeping me informed of what's going on. I just wanted to tha

Canada-U.S. Relations  Mr. Speaker, as of July, the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FACTA, will require all Canadian financial institutions to provide the U.S. government with confidential financial information on Canadians deemed to be U.S. persons. Millions are affected. This includes Can

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, on the second petition most of the 250 names are from my community of Castlegar. The petitioners would like the Government of Canada to instruct Canada Post to keep and expand public post offices instead of opening privately run offices or franchises, which seems to

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions. The first one is from residents of Nelson, Castlegar, Trail, Rossland, Crescent Valley, Winlaw, Salmo, New Denver and Cranbrook, who are upset over the cuts to Environment Canada. They call upon Parliament to undertake a thorough assessment of t

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have over a thousand names of people from Ontario, B.C., and Alberta, who are in support of my Bill C-322 to end horse slaughter in Canada. Petitioners point out that horses are commonly administered drugs that are strictly prohibited from being used at any time to

Meat Inspection Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-571, An Act to amend the Meat Inspection Act and the Safe Food for Canadians Act (slaughter of equines for human consumption). Mr. Speaker, the bill I am proposing would prohibit the sending or conveying from one province to another, or the im

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I will not take too much time because there are other questions that I am sure people want to ask. However, in this appeal, Ukrainians are demanding that the president, the cabinet and the ministers of the Ukraine immediately stop the violence that has been carried

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for once again initiating this debate and for his hard work on behalf of Ukrainians throughout the world. My family, like those of many Canadians, has suffered under the brutal Soviet regime. I heard stories when I first went there

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I would like to mention that I will be splitting my time with the member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue. First off, I would to thank the member for Selkirk—Interlake and the member for Etobicoke-Centre for having requested tonight's emergency debate. It is of the utmost

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, as a Canadian of Russian Ukrainian descent, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech and for his support for the Ukrainian people. I would also like to thank all the members of this House. Over the past few days, anti-government demonstrations have been tak

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I would first like to congratulate my colleague on her recent election and thank her for her speech. One thing I have been thinking about during this whole debate and the tragedy that is happening is that Ukrainians are under the shadow of a very powerful Russia, wh

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the horse slaughter industry in Canada: (a) what is the government’s policy on requiring medical history on equine identity documents (EID) only for the last six months of a horse’s life, and not for an entire lifespan; (b) does the government have information on w

Agriculture committee  We have mechanisms now if there's a perceived subsidy or products are being dumped, but often by the time things get rolling, whether there's a favourable decision or not, the farmer has already been hit, because it takes months to do that. I'm just wondering, even though it may

Agriculture committee  Do I understand correctly that perhaps if any part of our industry is going to suffer, it may be the greenhouse industry because of competition from the Netherlands? We probably won't be getting broccoli from Europe, but is there a danger for greenhouse produce?

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Atamanenko. I'm sorry.