Indigenous Affairs   Oneida Energy Storage. In New Brunswick, the Tobique first nation is delivering the Burchill wind project near Saint John, one of the largest in my region of Atlantic Canada. In Northwest Territories, the indigenous-led Denendeh exploration and mining company received $5 million

Fisheries and Oceans   First Nation has asked for this to immediately stop. The Province of B.C. has an abatement order against this company. We also just got a letter from Tla'amin Nation asking that this outfit stop its activity. They are on the other side of the Salish Sea. There is no support

John Allen Fraser   member but the right clan. John was a UBC-trained lawyer, minister of the Crown and the first Speaker to be elected by secret ballot. He was a voracious reader with a keen sense of humour, and an orator of note who loved the outdoors. As chief opposition whip and on behalf

National Strategy on Brain Injuries Act  Madam Speaker, it is a huge honour today to rise and stand in solidarity in support of Bill C-277, a national strategy on brain injury. It is a bill that I have had the fortunate honour to be the seconder of. It was tabled by my good friend, the member for Cowichan—Malahat

The Budget   in the first place. The Prime Minister seems hell-bent on destroying the economic fabric of this nation for his own political gain, with no regard for the future generations he is fiscally handcuffing. He refuses to listen to reason, and here is the main point of my speech, he refuses

Petitions  , which are under serious threats from pathogens, pollutants and sea lice originating from open-net cage farms. They cite that wild salmon support first nations' cultural traditions and complex ecosystems, including contributing to coastal forests, which produce the oxygen we breathe

The Budget   not good for inflation.” Former Liberal finance minister John Manley also warned this government months ago that it was pressing on the inflationary gas pedal with its spending. Even former Liberal-appointed governor of the Bank of Canada David Dodge said he believes

The Budget   and more than 1.7 million Canadians have already signed up. Next year, nine million uninsured Canadians will have dental coverage. We have also introduced legislation to deliver the first phase of national pharmacare, which will provide universal coverage for many diabetes medications

Pharmacare Act   a national universal pharmacare program. It proposes the foundational principles of the first phase of national universal pharmacare and our intent to work with provinces and territories to provide universal, single-payer coverage for a number of contraception and diabetes medications

Health committee  Ms. Huggins, we've not had a summit on the toxic drug crisis, yet we've had a summit on the auto theft issue. Do you believe that the toxic drug crisis deserves to have a national summit at a first ministers meeting, and do you believe we should reinstate the expert task force

Health committee   supply drugs in the illicit market in BC or Canada.” We know from testimony as well as from reports of these investigations and, indeed, from these arrests that it is taking place in Prince George, Campbell River, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Kelowna and, indeed, first nations across

Public Accounts committee   10% of first nations communities actually responded. I'll perhaps go first to the Auditor General. What kind of concern would you place on the fact that so few first nations communities responded to that survey?

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to open with a comment that is mainly directed to the CMHC. I don't want to sound glib, but “do better”. That's my comment to the CMHC right now, specifically on first nations housing and the fact that you're using data from two decades ago. Come

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, first nations in B.C. have suffered enormous loss throughout their 200-year history of colonization, including the devastating loss of language and culture. Although nations continue to make tremendous progress revitalizing their languages, the Liberals' new formula

Environment committee  It's a start. One thing we found in the Global Water Futures program is that there's almost nowhere in Canada where there is a flood prediction point on a first nations territory, on an indigenous territory. We put them in the big cities. That's where the gauges