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

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

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

Softwood Lumber   reflect that in Centre Block, in the Speaker's chambers, with a number of visiting conservationists and first nations, he proposed a toast to “the conspiracy to save the planet”. It was a non-partisan conspiracy, with Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats and members

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

Privilege   is interpreted and applied by the protector of the House, the Speaker of the House. Before I go into the details of my speech, I do want to rise and pay tribute to the late Hon. John Allen Fraser. Mr. Fraser passed away this Saturday at the age of 92, but he served in this place for more

Softwood Lumber  Madam Chair, I was just reading a quote from the release for Iskum Investments, the new consortium of indigenous companies on the coast of B.C. I was reading a quote from waamiiš Ken Watts. He is the elected chief councillor of Tseshaht Nation. He said: As First Nations

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. First, I would like to thank Dr. John Pomeroy for being here today at the table with me. Dr. Pomeroy is the Canada research chair in water resources and climate change. He is the inspiration behind this bill. He helped to draft this bill, and he

Softwood Lumber   first nations in coastal British Columbia. It is led by Chief John Jack of the Huu-ay-aht Nation and the former elected chief, Robert Dennis. We know the forest industry currently employs about 10,000 indigenous individuals, both directly and indirectly. It is crucial to provide

Health committee   Nation; The chief of the We Wai Kai Nation has harshly criticized the so-called “safe supply” experiment; 3,656 people in British Columbia have received government-issued hydromorphone because of this dangerous experiment; and There have been reports of diverted safe-supply

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the electoral district of Courtenay—Alberni, broken down by fiscal year, since fiscal year 2005-06: what are all the federal infrastructure investments, including direct transfers to municipalities, regional district associations or First Nations, national parks