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  • His favourite word is privacy.

NDP MP for Hamilton Centre (Ontario)

Won his last election, in 2021, with 49% of the vote.

A week ago

Spoke in the House on Corrections and Conditional Release Act Madam Speaker, certainly ending the week by debating the bill before us provides a certain level of weight for anybody who is recounting the atrocities and ...

Spoke in the House on The Economy Madam Speaker, the Liberals are so out of touch. Just as New Democrats have delivered social programs to help Canadians, the Conservatives are already campaigning to ...

Spoke in the House on Oil and Gas Industry Mr. Speaker, Ontarians woke up this morning to find out that they got mugged by corporate oil and gas greed today. Gas prices are up 14¢ ...

Voted Yes on Vote #740 on Bill S-209 Respecting Pandemic Observance Day

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, ... Minus the gapping that you had by not having a permanent person, would you have found upward pressures, given the cost of living, collective agreements and ...

Spoke in the House on Points of Order Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same point of order. It is important for us to reflect on what has transpired in the House. You will ...

Spoke in the House on Housing Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, I met with over 100 youth from Hamilton who told me they do not even know how they are going to ...

Voted Yes on Vote #739 Motion to proceed to Orders of the Day

Spoke in the House on Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the Canada Dental Benefit, broken down by federal electoral district since the program's inception: (a) what is the total number of applications (i) ...

Voted No on Vote #737 on Bill C-50 Respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and ...

Voted Yes on Vote #738 on Bill C-50 Respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Use of Social Media Platforms for Data Harvesting and Unethical or Illicit ... This is what I would say, just from a strategic point of view. I happen to think that allowing that study to happen would actually give ...

Voted Yes on Vote #686 Motion to proceed to Orders of the Day

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Committee Business and Election of Vice-Chairs Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd be remiss not to note that it took our having these amendments to have a real discussion about what ...

Spoke in the House on Privilege Mr. Speaker, it is often the case in the House that we get into these debates regarding scandals. We are always talking about people and particular ...

A month ago

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Federal Government's Use of Technological Tools Capable of Extracting Personal Data from ... I do appreciate that. I'm dealing with some technical difficulties on my end with Adobe with those licences, but that's another story,. For me, at the ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Decision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to Not Pursue a ... Mr. Chair, I do caution you on this, as somebody else who's.... My intention is to support the demand; my intention was to support the demand ...

Spoke in the House on Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, today I will read into the record what legal expert Dr. Ardi Imseis said about the legal framework for Palestinian statehood. He stated, “Palestine ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Decision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to Not Pursue a ... Thank you very much. I'm going to do something that maybe I don't do often enough, which is to provide the benefit of the doubt to ...

Spoke at the Government Operations committee on ArriveCAN Application Thank you very much. I had hoped that perhaps there could have been some consultations and agreements found around the room. Since we're back to this ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Federal Government's Use of Technological Tools Capable of Extracting Personal Data from ... When you're trying to track procurement—I was also on a file that dealt with government procurement, and I also found it very challenging—can you speak to ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (travel expenses deduction for tradespersons)