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Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, I am very happy that the Leader of the Opposition, after reading a government press release, has finally tuned into this issue, but I have a couple of clarifications. First, mandatory minimums for auto theft for repeat offences already exist in the Criminal Code, so he is not changing something that already exists.

February 5th, 2024House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition purports to be tough on crime. Who do I listen to about crime measures? Police officers. What do they tell me? They tell me that this is not an individual crime; this is backed by people who are organized criminals. How do we deal with that?

February 5th, 2024House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, when the Minister of Public Safety and I were with the Premier of Ontario, we announced $121 million of funding to help with attacking crime in places like Ontario. That will help to stop this flow of what we see in terms of auto theft. The other thing we heard from the premier, and what we have heard from the law enforcement officials who were there, is that if we want to tackle this we have to tackle organized crime.

February 1st, 2024House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, with respect to bail, what I would underscore is the unanimity with which the House spoke on amending the bail provisions so that we could keep communities safe. That was a sign of success in terms of what parliamentarians, when we co-operate on community safety, can achieve.

January 29th, 2024House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Justice  Mr. Speaker, I want to acknowledge that today is the seventh anniversary of a terrorist attack at the Quebec City mosque. We commit ourselves to commemorating those victims and to taking action on Islamophobia. The point the member is raising about Islamophobia and all forms of hate is a very important one.

January 29th, 2024House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Carbon Pricing  Madam Speaker, what I want for Christmas is for that member of the justice committee and his colleagues to end their antics and stop playing with people's lives. I am talking about David and Joyce Milgaard's law. That is a law that would change the way we address wrongful convictions and end systemic discrimination.

December 15th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Carbon Pricing  Madam Speaker, I think what Dr. Seuss is concerned about is food security. Food security is relevant to the member and the people he represents in Alberta, because the good Ukrainian Canadians in Alberta know that Ukraine represents the breadbasket of the world. It is not just Ukrainian Canadians who are disappointed in the member and his caucus.

December 15th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the part that is quite incredible about the position taken by Conservatives under their leader's guidance is that, when they abandoned Ukraine, they were not just abandoning over one million Ukrainian Canadians here in Canada, but countless other east Europeans, thousands if not millions, who are also concerned with pushing back against Russian authoritarianism.

December 14th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, they are abandoning east European Canadians, Polish Canadians, Baltic Canadians, all of whom have a vested interest in pushing up against Russian authoritarianism under Putin. I wish Conservatives would show some support for that—

December 14th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, when it comes to food security, we always have to remember that the breadbasket of the world is a country called Ukraine. I am going to use the name of that country deliberately because, when one cannot—

December 14th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, I use the term “Ukraine” deliberately because, when somebody who aspires to lead this nation is incapable of saying the term “Ukraine” and is calling that nation, which is fighting for its very existence, a faraway foreign land, I find that not just disrespectful to our ally, but immoral.

December 14th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Indigenous Services  Mr. Chair, I appreciate the member opposite's comments in this House over many years, including in tonight's debate. I would just point out, for the purposes of tonight's debate, that in terms of long-term boil water advisories, none exist any longer in her home province of British Columbia, which is important.

December 11th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Indigenous Services  Mr. Chair, I thank the member opposite for his contributions to this House and for his very sincere remarks this evening about his personal and lived experience. I believe sincerely that on this side of the House we have made progress. However, I know we need to make faster progress and do more with respect to various aspects of reconciliation, particularly with respect to water.

December 11th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Indigenous Services  Mr. Chair, I thank the member opposite for his contribution to tonight's debate, and I do not doubt his sincerity about addressing the needs of his constituents, particularly the first nations that he represents. I also do not doubt the factual accounting that he outlined tonight about the severe climate events that are plaguing everyone in this country, particularly in his riding.

December 11th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal

Indigenous Services  Mr. Chair, I was listening to the member's speech. I want to, first of all, thank the NDP for initiating this take-note debate today. Given where we are in terms of access to water and clean water, today was a momentous day with the tabling of legislation in this House. Bill C-61 talks about clean drinking water for generations to come.

December 11th, 2023House debate

Arif ViraniLiberal