Elections Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today as we are at the final stages of Bill C-76. This is the Liberals' attempt to fix the attack on our democracy that came out of the last Parliament, when the Harper government moved what it called the Fair Elections Act, which was clearly the unfair elections act.

Elections Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, that was an interesting exchange between my Liberal and Conservative colleagues, in that there was an impasse created at committee. That impasse was broken when the Liberals made a deal with the Conservatives to allow more spending to go on in our elections. The parliamentary secretary, I guess, omitted that part.

Elections Modernization Act  moved: Motion No. 161 That Bill C-76, in Clause 372, be amended by replacing lines 27 and 28 on page 240 with the following: “(a) the other elector resides in the same electoral district as the elector;”

Elections Modernization Act  moved: Motion No. 115 That Bill C-76, in Clause 268, be amended by replacing line 28 on page 166 with the following: “(3) Section 437 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2): (2.1) The Chief Electoral Officer may require the chief agent of a registered party to provide by a specified date documents evidencing any expense set out in the party’s election expenses return, including invoices, bank statements, deposit slips and cancelled cheques.”

Elections Modernization Act  Motion No. 76 That Bill C-76, in Clause 190, be amended by replacing line 17 on page 99 with the following: “same electoral district as the other person or, in the”

Elections Modernization Act  moved: Motion No. 78 That Bill C-76, in Clause 190, be amended by replacing line 30 on page 100 with the following: “(b) they knowingly make or publish a false statement that is prohibited under paragraph 91(1)(a) or (b) in respect of a candidate in that election, a registered party that has endorsed a candidate in that election, the leader of such a registered party or the electoral district association of such a registered party; or”

Elections Modernization Act  moved: Motion No. 30 That Bill C-76, in Clause 93, be amended by replacing line 20 on page 47 with the following: “electors for the same electoral district and who”

Elections Modernization Act  moved: Motion No. 38 That Bill C-76, in Clause 107, be amended by replacing line 31 on page 54 with the following: “the same electoral district and who”

Elections Modernization Act  moved: Motion No. 46 That Bill C-76, in Clause 117, be amended by replacing line 36 on page 60 with the following: “the same electoral district and who”

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, when it comes to recycling, we can all get behind that, but when it comes to the Trans Mountain pipeline, the Liberal government has taken things to extremes, because the Prime Minister is recycling the same broken process that has already failed us. Indigenous leaders, environmental groups and local leaders have blasted his so-called new pipeline review, calling it “rigged” with “impossible” timelines.

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure I heard this in my friend's speech because there is the way he sees it, the way my colleague from Whitby sees it, and there is the way the courts have seen the use and practice of solitary confinement in our prisons and the response from not one, but two superior court decisions, one in British Columbia and one in Ontario, against this practice is what the bill is responding to, allegedly.

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Manitoba for his interventions, as he knows better than most of us the overrepresentation of indigenous peoples in our prison system, as well as their overrepresentation in solitary confinement. He also well knows the long-standing evidence of the damage and the harmful effects that can happen to someone in solitary confinement.

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, has anyone ever noticed that when the Prime Minister talks about the economy and the environment going hand in hand, it is always the environment that gets screwed? The recent report from the United Nations has sounded the alarm on catastrophic climate change, but rather than waking up from their decades- long slumber, the Liberals are hitting the snooze button: “Five more minutes, ma, please.”

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, record-setting floods and storms, historically devastating forest fires and a melting Arctic, and rather than bold action, we get more platitudes from the Liberal government. If empty words and broken promises were going to solve climate change, the Liberals would have had this thing beat decades ago, but they adopted Stephen Harper's climate change targets, and they cannot even meet those.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, Canadian charities remember well the dark days when the Harper government used the CRA to attack them, trying to silence the voices of civil society: anti-poverty groups, environmental groups, women's groups. The Liberals promised them that the attacks would stop, but as with so many other Liberal promises, they broke their word.