Business of Supply   the price per barrel has remained stable on old stock. Then, when the crisis is over, the prices come down and the new stock has a reduced barrel price, we still see the high level of gas prices and millions of dollars taken out of the pockets of Canadian consumers each and every year

An Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada's Official Languages   of French schools and, as a result, of the French-speaking community in Quebec and its culture. The freedom to choose a school became a major issue. The question was simple: Should Quebec parents of all origins, whether old-stock or immigrants, be given a free choice between English

Permanent Residency for Temporary Foreign Workers  : bringing in people to do the work the so-called old-stock Canadians no longer want to do. They pick our vegetables, drive our taxis, serve our coffee, drill our oil, mine our lithium for electric cars, drive our big-rig trucks, take care of our children and elders, perform our surgeries

Finance  Mr. Speaker, we are two days away from the first NDP budget, sponsored by the Minister of Finance. It is the most left-leaning budget the Liberals have ever seen. I find it hard to believe that old-stock Liberal members are pleased to see this move toward financial

National Defence committee   welcoming for people who don't fit the traditional mould of a rural, old-stock Canadian man with a stay-at-home wife, the CAF has instituted policies around dress and grooming, parental leave, posting, service couples and so on that are designed to support CAF members with different

Official Languages committee  I think the restorative exercise will be difficult. I don't know exactly what you want to restore or what targets would be acceptable to you. If old stock francophones outside Quebec, and even in Quebec, start adopting English, then I think it's magical thinking to believe

Transport committee   of the atrocious costs of travel between the north and the south in Canada. The wake-up call that came from that trip sent me on my own mission. I was heading to New York city to watch a play written by a playhouse in Halifax: 2b Theatre. The play was called Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

Official Languages committee   of contact with other francophones to be any more resistant to assimilation than old-stock francophones. So the danger of a perverse reaction remains. I'd like to talk again about the importance of properly integrating immigrants. For example, if we allowed more immigrants to settle

Official Languages committee   people who were more francophone than others, and some less so. In that hierarchy, ''old stock'' francophones, those whose mother tongue is French, are often placed at the highest level; those who are bilingual, and for whom French is a second language, are somewhere in the middle

Health committee   movements and changes in contraband levels, which can distort things. Just prior to implementation, retailers would have decreased their purchases to get rid of old stock and not to be stuck with things that would be redundant. After January 1, they had to replenish their inventory, so

Canadian Heritage committee   to say, “What do you mean?” Let me give you an example. My own mother, for example, is white in colour. She's an old-stock Quebecker who became a Muslim 40 years ago and has been wearing the hijab for about 25 years. Over the last 10 years, she has, at various points in time, been

Genetic Non-Discrimination Act   of Montreal have shown that old stock Quebeckers for the most part are descendants of a limited demographic of only 8,500 French colonists. Today, there are several million Quebeckers. With respect to that group, if problems were discovered among the 8,500 colonists, today they are found

Official Languages committee   of an invisible minority because I am an old-stock North American. After 200 years of anglophones and francophones living together, we in New Brunswick came to the conclusion that the only way to protect minorities and the social fabric was to ensure that there was a duality in the most

Official Languages committee  Yes, there is a francophone presence at celebrations like the one in Batoche because they are open to everyone. Many old-stock inhabitants are Métis, who have francophone names but no longer speak the language, having lost their French over the years. That is why the French

Official Languages committee  , old-stock francophones, and French speakers from French second language immersion programs, but also immigrants, international students, and adults involved in continuing learning and the job market. The colleges and universities of the Canadian francophone community play