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NDP MP for Timmins—James Bay (Ontario)

Won his last election, in 2021, with 35% of the vote.

Two days ago

Spoke in the House on Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I am always proud to rise in this House and proud as well to share my time with the member for Vancouver East. There …

Voted Yes on Vote #814 on Bill C-70 Respecting countering foreign interference

Voted Yes on Vote #815 Opposition Motion (Government's economic analysis on the impact of the federal fuel charge and the output-based pricing system) …

Voted Yes on Vote #816 Opposition Motion (Government's economic analysis on the impact of the federal fuel charge and the output-based pricing system)

Voted Yes on Vote #817 Concurrence in estimates

Voted Yes on Vote #818 on Bill C-74 For granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for …

This week

Spoke in the House on Indigenous Affairs Mr. Speaker, for decades, the Mushkegowuk Cree of James Bay have fought to end substandard health and to get a proper hospital built, but now that …

Spoke in the House on Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 Mr. Speaker, it was fascinating to listen to my colleague actually bring a little bit of truth to this troubled place. What we have seen from …

A week ago

Spoke in the House on Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I had a lot of confidence when we came into this Parliament that we would get serious about the climate crisis. Canada has the …

Spoke in the House on Petitions Madam Speaker, I have a number of petitions here. One of the petitions really is timely right now, given the bombing of a school in Gaza. …

Spoke in the House on Oil and Gas Industry Mr. Speaker, corporations should not be allowed to lie about the threats that are posed by their products, which is a no-brainer, unless of course we …

Spoke in the House on Pharmacare Act Mr. Speaker, if anybody wants to see the deterioration and disappearance of public health care, they can come to Ontario. Last year, we had 1,000 emergency …

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on The Environment Mr. Speaker, fire season is on us, and yet oil production in the tar sands has reached its highest peak ever. That is thanks to the …

A month ago

Spoke at the Natural Resources committee on Canada’s Electricity Grid and Network Thank you. I want to thank the witnesses. You know your files well. This is impressive. I want to help my good friend Mr. McLean, because ...

Spoke at the Human Resources committee on Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Votes ... I appreciate that, because I see what's happening in my community of Timmins and I know it's as bad, and worse, in other northern communities. In ...

Spoke at the Finance committee on Subject matter of Bill C-69, An Act to implement certain provisions of … Thank you, Chair. We've seen the tactic from Mr. Genuis where he comes in and he's abusive. He's talking over other people. I want to hear …

Spoke at the Natural Resources committee on Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Vote ... I ask because when I was first elected, Ring of Fire was going to be the next big thing. For people I've talked to in the ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Canada-China Relations committee on Canada–People’s Republic of China Relations That's fair play. I think the worst thing is doing an after-the-fact gotcha moment, when these things are very complex and when there are all manner ...

Spoke at the Canada-China Relations committee on Canada–People’s Republic of China Relations I would suggest that this is a question for CSIS. I don't know; maybe you don't watch sci-fi movies like I do. If you've ever watched ...

Spoke at the Natural Resources committee on An Act to amend the Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act ... Thank you, Chair, and thank you for the excellent work in getting us to the finish line on this huge bill. I think it's a real ...

Spoke at the Natural Resources committee on An Act to amend the Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act ... Thank you, Chair. We always seem to have to start again with simple explanations. Bill C-49 is updating the Atlantic accords. The Atlantic accords are a ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-372 An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-309 An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (public institutions)

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-580 An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Firearms Act and the Contraventions Act (long guns)