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

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

Softwood Lumber   know we are going to have fibre supply issues down the road. We need to do this immediately. It is critical to job security, to our communities and to the longevity of our forest sector. It is actually smart. I cannot think of another first world country, if we want to call

Softwood Lumber   the first mill in 15 years on the coast of British Columbia just in the last few years. Now it is being hit with this. We know that conservatives would like to cost our lumber industry more than it can afford by bringing in these tariffs. They call it “certainty”, but it costs our

Government Operations committee   of investment. It would be multi-million dollars to the first nations. It's doing exactly what is happening out west.

Right Hon. Brian Mulroney   not set the tone for future Canada-Quebec relations. He pledged to bring Quebec into the Constitution and the federation with “honour and enthusiasm”, as a people. He said that Quebec had “an option”, to paraphrase the words he fired off at John Turner during the first debate. I am

Right Hon. Brian Mulroney   that he has done. For many of his great accomplishments, we, a generation of Canadians, are the beneficiaries. First and foremost, in service to his country here and elsewhere, he helped build and strengthen our nation. Dividing us was not his path. He built us up. I recall serving

Agriculture committee  Thank you. You mentioned in your comment the lack of knowledge of this industry and its impact on first nations and Métis communities specifically. We had a comment from one of our colleagues, who said, “I would object to referring to the Métis traditions and cultures

Privilege   until Parliament was prorogued four months later. Let us be clear. I am not proposing that Mr. Firth be imprisoned for this particular offence. However, we must all recall that the House possesses awesome power and authority to vindicate its role as the grand inquest of the nation

Right Hon. Brian Mulroney  . In his terms, he would often say, “You dance with the one that brung ya.” Friendship, loyalty and family were the guiding tenets of Mulroney's life. Upon winning the leadership, the night of it, he stood up in front of all the delegates in the nation and said to MP Erik Nielsen