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Health Madam Speaker, what is the plan? Canadians need more information. Once Canadians in China have safely returned to Canada, what is the protocol in place to protect Canadians at home? Will those returning be mandated to remain in quarantine? If yes, for how long? The government has indicated that there will be an enhanced screening process.
January 31st, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
Health Madam Speaker, yesterday the member for Cumberland—Colchester appeared on national television to outline the government's response plan for coronavirus. As the government's representative, she said people going through airports should buy gloves, buy masks and try not to touch anything.
January 31st, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
Health Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the government is working out the logistics on how and when to bring home the Canadians in China affected by the coronavirus quarantine. What criteria will be used to determine which individuals will board the evacuating flight?
January 30th, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
International Trade Mr. Speaker, the importance of the integrated North American economy is not lost on Conservatives. The aluminum, auto, agriculture and digital sectors have many questions and they remain unanswered. They need to know the upsides and the downsides of this deal. We have asked the Prime Minister to release all NAFTA-related economic studies and analysis, so that we as parliamentarians can do the job Canadians sent us here to do.
January 29th, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
International Trade Mr. Speaker, the United States is Canada's most important trading partner, with trade totalling over $900 billion annually. On December 12, Conservatives asked the government to release all of the economic documents and analyses that show specifically how this new deal will affect our economy, but it refused.
January 28th, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the export of military goods: (a) what was the average, median, shortest and longest approval time for an export permit in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018, (vi) (2019); (b) what is the precise process through which each permit application goes prior to final approval, including the titles of those required to sign off at each stage of the process; (c) has the process in (b) changed since November 4, 2015, and, if so, (i) what precise changes were made to the process, (ii) when was each change made; and (d) what specific measures, if any, is the government implementing to speed up the approval process?
January 27th, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
Health Mr. Speaker, on December 31, China alerted the World Health Organization to several cases of pneumonia. Then on January 7, the WHO announced that it had identified a new virus, the coronavirus, originating in Wuhan, China. Days later, China announced its first death from the virus.
January 27th, 2020House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
The Economy Mr. Speaker, the ghosts of Christmas past are not going to help Canadians today and in the future. What kind of holidays are the 71,000 Canadians who lost their jobs last month going to have, or the workers at the GM plant that is closing, or the thousands in the aerospace industry or at CN Rail who have lost their jobs or the over 200,000 in the oil and gas sector who are out of work?
December 13th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
The Economy Mr. Speaker, Canada's economy is falling behind and it is the government's fault. Foreign direct investment has dropped by 56%, chased to our competitors by the Prime Minister. Canada's unemployment rate is significantly higher than that of the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Japan.
December 13th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
The Economy Mr. Speaker, while the holidays should be a time to get warm by the fire, thanks to the Prime Minister many Canadians are being left out in the cold: 13% more people cannot pay their credit cards, half of Canadians are within $200 of not being able to make ends meet and 27% more working Canadians are having to turn to food banks.
December 13th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
International Trade Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the official opposition was briefed on NAFTA after it was signed. We still have more questions than answers. The aluminum, auto and agriculture sectors have a lot of concerns. The Prime Minister cannot expect us to accept this agreement without doing the necessary checks.
December 12th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
International Trade Mr. Speaker, we are asking for the economic impact analysis so we can make an informed decision. While the Prime Minister's undiplomatic behaviour at Buckingham Palace is providing comedians with new skit material, for Canadians this is no laughing matter. The relationship between Canada and the United States is crucial.
December 12th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
International Trade Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the opposition showed the Prime Minister that he has lost control of the House. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister signed the new NAFTA without consulting the opposition. According to the media, the Democrats were clearly in the know and practically negotiated the agreement.
December 11th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
International Trade Mr. Speaker, not only did the Prime Minister not inform members of Parliament in Canada about the new NAFTA, but he has sheepishly accepted the terms put forward by our trading partners. According to senior Democrats, the Prime Minister conceded to just about every point that we asked for in this most recent final agreement.
December 11th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative
Public Safety Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has failed to manage our relationship with the Government of China, from control of Canadian resource technology and service companies by Chinese state-owned entities to cyber-attacks on our communications networks, to security concerns in our Arctic, to international drug trafficking of deadly substances like fentanyl.
December 10th, 2019House debate
Leona AlleslevConservative