Julie Vignola

[Public Services and Procurement, December 7th, 2020]

Madam Speaker, Davie has received less than 3% of the contracts to date. Ottawa withdrew the John G. Diefenbaker contract from Seaspan because it was unable to complete it. In exchange, the government awarded Seaspan a contract for 16 small vessels.

Davie can fulfill this contract now, but Ottawa would rather give the contract back to the company it took it away from. That makes no sense. It is doing everything it can to squeeze out Quebec.

Why is Ottawa so bent on depriving Quebec of 2,000 jobs and $1 billion in investments?

[Public Services and Procurement, December 7th, 2020]

Madam Speaker, inexplicably, the government has not yet awarded the contract for the John G. Diefenbaker icebreaker to Davie. That ship should have been built three years ago. Ottawa even had to take the contract away from the company that had won it because it could not start construction. To this day, the feds stubbornly refuse to give the contract to Davie.

As the Liberals well know, Davie is the only shipyard in Canada capable of starting construction now. Davie has the capacity to do it.

Will the government finally announce that it is giving the John G. Diefenbaker contract to Davie?

[Business of Supply, December 3rd, 2020]

Madam Speaker, last spring, we spent countless hours helping people get back to Canada.

What those people were telling us was that they were not getting any information and that they felt abandoned and unimportant, even though they were Canadian citizens and they just wanted to come home.

At-risk populations include the first nations, who often live in remote, hard-to-access areas. How does my colleague think the first nations feel right now, given that they do not have any information?

[Business of Supply, December 3rd, 2020]

Madam Speaker, just recently, the Government of Quebec complained about the lack of information provided by Ottawa, particularly information about the possibility of getting more doses than promised for 2021. The governments of Quebec and the Canadian provinces are the ones who will be distributing the vaccine.

I would like to know if my colleague has heard the same thing from the other Canadian provinces.

[Criminal Code, November 30th, 2020]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague, who also made a very personal and moving speech.

The hon. member who spoke earlier said that medical assistance in dying was out of the question. We all acknowledge and respect the value of life, which is extremely important. We must also, in my opinion, respect freedom of choice and conscience, which is extremely personal. People can choose palliative care, which needs to be enhanced and made more accessible. We all agree on that. However, one does not preclude the other. Both of these choices should be accessible.

If palliative care were as accessible as it should be, would it not be fair to offer the choice of medical assistance in dying as well?

[Criminal Code, November 30th, 2020]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his very personal speech.

I think we agree that we need to improve the care and inclusion of people with disabilities. Personally, I think that this very important option has not been given enough consideration.

On the other hand, in the case of a person with a disability who has all his or her faculties, who suffers from intense pain and whose life expectancy has been shortened but whose date of death is unforeseeable, the bill provides for a 90-day period during which the person could receive the necessary care we are talking about, namely, mental health support. This period would allow us to make sure that the person's desire to die is not the result of suicidal ideation. What does my colleague think about this 90-day period?

[Health, November 26th, 2020]

Mr. Speaker, the Government of Quebec wrote to the Minister of Health on October 23 to ask for an update on the vaccines.

Not only did Quebec never get a response, but the Prime Minister half-heartedly told us a month later that there has been a slight setback and that the vaccines will not get here on time. What a complete mess. Quebec will be vaccinating people, not Ottawa. Quebec is introducing lockdown measures to protect Quebeckers, not Ottawa.

When will we have a specific date for the vaccine?

[Health, November 26th, 2020]

Mr. Speaker, we all thought we would have to put up with bloody COVID-19 for another few weeks. The media were reporting that pharmaceutical companies had discovered a vaccine and that it would be here in January at the latest.

Quebec is already buying freezers to store the vaccine doses that Ottawa promised. There is just one little problem: The Prime Minister forgot to mention that he has no clue when we will get the vaccine.

Does the Prime Minister understand that reserving vaccine doses is all well and good, but what we need to know is when they will be here?

[Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, November 26th, 2020]

Mr. Speaker, when I was a teacher, I often saw students who had problems and knew the solutions, but could not solve their problems because they did not know how to go about implementing the solution.

This bill is a step in the right direction, but it does not identify how the objectives will be achieved.

Is there a concrete, down-to-earth action plan to go with this bill?

[Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, November 26th, 2020]

Mr. Speaker, I grew up surrounded by nature. There were mountains, lakes, rivers and forests as far as the eye could see. The environment has been one of my chief concerns since I was a little girl. However, growing up in a remote community meant that we could not be as environmentally responsible as we wanted to. When we were very young, we learned how important it was to take care of the environment for future generations. There was the Kyoto protocol in 2005 and the Paris Agreement in 2016. We have a duty to take care of our environment because we are only borrowing it from our children, yet we are putting off our responsibility until 2050.

Can my hon. colleague tell me what measures could be introduced quickly, well before 2050, to truly make the environment a top priority for the sake of future generations?