Committees of the House   voted to do this exact thing six years ago. Sometimes I wonder what we are doing in this place. We are elected. We are spending billions of dollars renovating Centre Block. These places are supposed to mean something. They represent the will of the common people. When we vote

Committees of the House   Canadians who have been impacted in our communities across this country. Today, I want to start by telling a bit of a story. When I was elected in 2019, we were all sworn in in November. We had very little time in December before the House rose. I went home for Christmas holidays, like

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to join my colleagues in congratulating my colleague on his election and his first speech. I recall a great quote by Scott Brison, who sat on both the Liberal and Conservative benches. When he sat in the House, he said that although he did not share

Pharmacare Act  I apologize, Madam Speaker. I was caught up in the moment. Could the member elaborate on the issues he heard, when he was knocking on doors in his most recent election, so all Canadians can understand what the issues are out there?

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, I rise in the chamber today as Canada's newest member of Parliament elected to represent the riding of Durham. I have a very clear message to deliver on behalf of my community in Durham. We are tired of the Prime Minister's broken promises. We are tired

Pharmacare Act   election promise. Why does the government not work with pharmaceutical companies to bring down the cost of all drugs to Canadians? That is a novel idea, but nothing is mentioned in there. All we get are future promises and no plan. Let us really, truly be honest with Canadians

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, this is not a pharmacare plan; this is a PR exercise by an NDP-Liberal coalition that is floundering in the polls. There is a reason that almost a quarter of the NDP MPs are not seeking re-election. The member is from British Columbia, as am I also. As he

Pharmacare Act   want to, in a disconnected way, make their speeches in the House of Commons, without actually talking to the people who would benefit from the bill. We have to wonder about the kind of responsibility the Conservatives take as elected representatives, particularly given how

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, there is not much time left until the election. The Liberals are incapable of hearing Quebec's demands, among other things. Quebec will not prevent the federal government from doing what it wants everywhere else, but it is warning the federal government

Softwood Lumber  . This is nothing new. Since the early 1980s, the United States has been desperately trying to keep Canadian lumber out and to enable Americans to benefit from top-quality wood at very good prices by imposing unfair and unwarranted countervailing duties. Since the 1980s, there was a time when

Information & Ethics committee  We did not investigate public communications. Like you, I read the magazines and the press. It's obvious that there's a lack of trust when it comes to ethics. That's why it's necessary for us to reinforce the importance of ethics and educate those elected or appointed to behave

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, of course. We have prepared the training that all new MPs must take after each election. It will be offered on the House of Commons Source system in the coming months. We've also talked about doing the same thing, or almost the same thing, with the act. When we did our

Softwood Lumber  -priority issue when dealing with the United States, but I also think it is unfair to suggest that nothing has been done by the current government on trade disputes. I think it is quite remarkable that, again with the late Brian Mulroney's help, the current government was able to get

Softwood Lumber   to have these unfair U.S. duties revoked. Separately, we have also acted swiftly to mitigate the impacts of the U.S. trade measures on workers and communities. While we continue to pursue a durable negotiated outcome, let there be no doubt that the Canadian softwood lumber industry

Finance committee  . If passed, Bill C-59 would instead repeal sections of the Competition Act that prohibit the tribunal from concluding that a prospective merger is anti-competitive based solely on the size of the parties proposing the merger. This sounds appealing, because in a lot of cases, the size