Environment committee   in that short period of time. The land's increasing by 2%.... You've said yourself, to put things into perspective, that it's the size of Greece. Would you say, given the investments and the attention that this government has made in this area, that we're fully committed to achieving those

Environment committee  , Canada has increased the proportion of land and fresh water that is protected and conserved from 10.5% to 11.8%. This increase is equivalent to the size of Greece. By supporting others, the government is strengthening and better connecting networks of protected and conserved areas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  . Europe's experiences suggest that this may in fact be very difficult to do. There are two examples that are relevant here. One is the agreement that was reached between the EU and Turkey back in 2016 to return applicants who had come from Turkey to Greece and were thus deemed

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you think Italy or Greece issued any similar types of tweets in 2015-16 that justified the large numbers of migrants who sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to seek asylum?

Status of Women committee  Madam Roy, in my radio talk show days, it was back in the 1980s that the debate was going on as to whether women should be allowed to be in combat. I knew a number of elderly ladies who had served in Israel, Russia and Greece and who had no problem operating in combat. Looking

Petitions  . It is a desperate situation, and they are calling on the government to intercede, to engage directly with the government of Greece, however we can as a nation, and offer concrete aid and assistance for the humanitarian crisis as it unfolds in Samos.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  , nationalists and anti-immigrant parties such as the Golden Dawn, in Greece, and the Party for Freedom, in the Netherlands, to name just two. We saw European countries outright close their doors to Syrian refugees fleeing violence that included state-sanctioned torture, the use of chemical

Foreign Affairs committee   countries are being allowed to make their own choices. You have, for example, Slovenia, which has integrated quite comfortably into the European economy and society, as far as I can tell. You have Montenegro, which is joining NATO. Encouragingly, you have a concord between Greece

The Budget   for every dollar of income, which is a massive increase over the last several years. This makes them vulnerable to increases in interest rates. Furthermore, if we add household, corporate and government debt together, we have a higher debt-to-GDP ratio than Greece by that measurement

Citizenship and Immigration committee   families.” Again, there are two people writing this letter. The first says, “My brother ran from Iraq with his family, and they are staying in a shelter in Greece. He is living with his wife and three children. My brother is stuck in Greece, and I would very much appreciate

Industry committee  When it comes to blocking, the regimes around the world have done it in two ways. They either have court orders, or they've done it through administrative agencies, which have all the hallmarks of judicial oversight. We have Greece, Spain and others, about seven countries around

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   camps, both in Turkey and in Greece. So far, I believe, we have discovered about 67 mass graves that contain the remains of Yazidis. One was discovered just two days ago in the town of Tel Azer, south of Sinjar. In terms of the areas in Iraq being liberated from ISIS, Yazidi areas

National Defence committee  What were the costs of flying out the new military flight crew for the VIP flight back from Greece and Latvia?

National Defence committee   and Greece. There's been a misinformation campaign coming from the department, from your office. So I ask you this, Minister. Did you or your press secretary Byrne Furlong approve statements suggesting that the VIP party flight would cost only $15,000, which was reported earlier this year?

Finance committee  . We have a printing press called a central bank. I'm not even including countries in the European Union like Greece, which don't have their own central banks anymore. I'm referring to countries like Canada, the U.K., Japan, and so forth.