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Business of Supply —James Bay. I just heard a really good idea: that we investigate how we can help students. With all of the things going on right now in Canada, whether it is everything going on in Nova Scotia with the Mi'kmaq and the lobster fisheries or other various first nations issues, I would
October 20th, 2020House debate
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Broadcasting Act they are paying their share. After looking at the bill, I am really confident that we are going to make sure the web giants pay their share and contribute in a real way, not just a performative way but a real way, to the viability and competitiveness of Canadian media from producers here
November 19th, 2020House debate
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee as you see fit. Chief Belleau, you've already touched on the subject a bit, so if you'd like to elaborate a bit, that's fine. Perhaps your colleagues will go first so that you can hear their take on it as well. My question is specific to women, children and mental health. I'm hoping
May 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Business of Supply on much longer, but I would ask my friendly colleague opposite from Carleton if he thinks we have spent too much helping Canadians over the last eight or nine months at the most difficult time in the history of the world, and—
October 20th, 2020House debate
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Bills of Exchange Act Mr. Speaker, I rise again to express solidarity with my colleague and to thank him for teaching me so much about Mi'kmaq culture and for speaking the Mi'kmaq language in the House of Commons for the first time. His interventions and interjections on the committee we mutually
October 23rd, 2020House debate
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before I start, I would like to acknowledge that I'm on the sacred territory of the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat and many first nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. My questions will focus on youth. Minister Miller, we know
June 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee communities. I'd love to hear from everybody, so I'd ask you, if you could, to keep your interventions brief. Then we can hear from everybody. I think I'd start with Chief Poitras, if I could, to more thoroughly understand how the supports with respect to mental health can be better
June 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you so much to all the witnesses today, here on site. It's been so valuable. First I'd like to acknowledge that I'm on the traditional unceded Algonquin and Anishinabe territory in Ottawa, in our nation's capital. Given that we
June 9th, 2020Committee meeting
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Thanks, Chief. Mr. Jackson, my dad and I watched a lot of North of 60 when I was growing up but we also watched a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and when you appeared on that show, it very cool to see a Canadian and an indigenous person represented in space. Could you
June 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply in this House for their election to the 43rd Canadian Parliament. I would like to reiterate the sense of honour and privilege that I feel in having the opportunity to serve my neighbours in Milton. My neighbours and I ran a really long campaign, over a year. We knocked on doors for about
December 12th, 2019House debate
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I guess I will direct it first to Mr. Ejesiak, but somebody else might have follow-up afterwards. Mr. Ejesiak, the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency has two COVID-19-related support systems for small and medium-sized businesses in the north, the $15-million northern
June 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal
Coldest Night of the Year Walk of this event in Milton. They are both in their nineties now, and they have walked every single year, true champions of this cause. Our government introduced Canada's first-ever poverty reduction strategy, and the recent Canadian income survey indicates that over one million Canadians have
February 28th, 2020House debate
Adam van KoeverdenLiberal