Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2020   in GDP by three times. Government debt in particular has grown larger than Canada’s GDP, and that was the government's measuring stick. Our situation is worse than that faced by Greece during the sovereign debt crisis, or the United States during the 2008 financial crisis. Never

Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2020   over the last 60 years in Canada. Here is some more staggering information: The debt-to-GDP ratio of Greece when it had its massive sovereign debt crisis 10 years ago was 330%. In the United States, during the great financial crisis that came out of the mortgage bubble, their debt

National Strategy to Redress Environmental Racism Act   Brockovich. It was about a woman fighting an industry, but she was talking about financial precariousness. Today her struggle continues in Greece, but she is still talking about poverty. Ingrid Waldron, a professor and author who has high hopes for Bill C-230, looks at the real

Business of Supply   Minister's now revealed hidden agenda, a great reset, is based on the false assumption that magically massive public spending and deficits can generate economic growth. That is an act of deception. That plan has never worked. Ask the people of Greece or Cyprus if that plan worked for them

Foreign Affairs committee   the vaccine was available. The lowest local price was $3.10 per dose. You need three doses to confer immunity. Because humanitarians did not have a specific humanitarian mechanism to access it when we wanted to access it to vaccinate 5,000 refugee children in Greece, we were charged

Business of Supply  , or Greece under the colonels. It is nothing to be proud of. We must acknowledge the harm and suffering inflicted on people who were unjustly arrested and families who lost a father, a husband or a friend. I would also like to quote Le Devoir, the only newspaper that came out against

Business of Supply   or that the suffering of some cancel out the suffering of others. There were massive raids. A total of 31,000 apartments and houses were searched and 500 arbitrary arrests were made. It resembled the authoritarian regimes of Chile, Argentina or Greece under the colonels. These police blunders would

Oxi Day  Mr. Speaker, this year, for the first time in over 30 years, Canada's foreign affairs minister paid an official visit to Greece to discuss the conflict in the eastern Mediterranean with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and his Greek counterpart. Speaking of Greece, today, October 28

Information & Ethics committee  Well, that's great. I can certainly say he keeps raising ancient Greece, yet he will quote Luke. I didn't know you had been an altar boy. We've had this conversation in the past. It's really quite funny, because we're only about 400 years from each other in terms of deciding

Government Business No. 8   socialist policies the Prime Minister was trying to emulate. Now Canada has surpassed them and has the highest unemployment rate in the G7. In fact, we have among the highest unemployment rates in the OECD, falling fourth right behind Greece. This is should be a major wake-up call

Proceedings of the House and Committees   to oil lobbyists than to science? During the lockdown, we heard some great things and some positive news about the environment. For example, the canals in Venice ran clear; the mountains were visible in Wuhan; the Acropolis rose crystal-clear above the sea in Athens, Greece; city

Nova Scotia   known. On April 30, we lost six soldiers attached to HMCS Fredericton during a crash of their helicopter off the coast of Greece. Two of them were Nova Scotians. On Sunday, May 17, we lost Captain Jennifer Casey in the Snowbird crash in B.C. Since the current crisis prevents us from

Proceedings of the House and Committees   a number of tragedies recently in the Canadian Armed Forces with the recent Snowbirds crash and the crash of the Cyclone maritime helicopter in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece. We have not had a chance, as parliamentarians, to discuss this. One of the things missing from

COVID-19 Pandemic committee   Fredericton and, indeed, with the entire Canadian Armed Forces community during this time of grief. Can the Minister of National Defence give us an update as to the Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece last week?

COVID-19 Pandemic committee   Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. [A moment of silence observed] We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world