Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Madam Speaker, I deeply appreciate and respect my hon. colleague, but as someone who has first nations in my family and have hanged on the hope that the minister would follow through on some of the promises—

Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Madam Speaker, if you will permit me, I believe I have the opportunity to respond to this. I will apologize and retract what I said, but it is shameful that the minister stands—

Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Madam Speaker, I have the utmost respect for our hon. colleague across the way. However, I have said from the very beginning that there is no plan. If one fails to plan, one plans to fail. The Liberals have failed first nations with respect to the suicide epidemic that has ravi

Fisheries Act  Madam Speaker, I appreciate my hon. colleague's intervention. That brings me back to a word that you used in your intervention, Madam Speaker, and that is “trust” . That is what has brought us all down this path. When Bill C-68 went to the Senate, we had trust that the Senate w

Fisheries Act  Madam Speaker, I have to get back to where I was. I was on a roll too. Instead of listening to experts, the Liberals thought they knew best. Bill C-68 proposed to restore the lost protections by returning to the previous definition of harmful alteration disruption and destructi

Fisheries Act  Madam Speaker, if other jurisdictions, including the United States, are able to bring in effective third party habitat banking systems and programs, why is that Canada cannot do that?

Fisheries Act  Madam Speaker, it is an honour to stand in the House and speak to the Senate amendments to Bill C-68. I listened intently as the minister did whatever he could, every step of the way, to disparage the previous government while trying to prop himself and his department up along

Forestry Industry  Madam Speaker, thousands and thousands of jobs are at risk right now. Hundreds of jobs have been lost in recent weeks in my province alone. Where are they standing with them? In the unemployment line? That answer is shameful. The Liberals have admitted that forestry has not bee

Forestry Industry  Madam Speaker, it is obvious that the government does not care about the over 200,000 Canadians who are employed by forestry, or the 9,500 forestry jobs in indigenous communities across our country, or the hundreds of communities across rural Canada that depend on the forestry in

Forestry Industry  Mr. Speaker, in signing the last softwood lumber agreement, the former Conservative government put an end to the longest and most costly trade dispute with the U.S. We expanded overseas markets, we championed a wood-first initiative. However, when the deal expired, the Liberals

Criminal Records Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate our hon. colleague's candour and honesty in answering questions. One of the questions I have goes back to the fines that are owed, specifically in terms of municipalities. The number one cost to municipalities is policing. With the passing of Bill C-45,

Criminal Records Act  Mr. Speaker, Bill C-93 recommends a no-cost pardon and waiver for cannabis convictions, but there are still going to be potentially those who have fines still owing. I want to know if the government has consulted with the provinces where those fines would be owed and roughly what

Forestry Industry  Mr. Speaker, British Columbia is the largest producer of softwood in North America. Forestry is a cornerstone industry in our provincial economy. It generates $33 billion in output and $13 billion in GDP. B.C. leads the world in sustainable forestry practices. Over 140,000 jobs a

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, what we have seen with the B-20 stress test is that it is forcing new homebuyers, some first-time buyers and millennials, to alternative lending institutions, which, of course, as we know, have higher interest rates. This is actually putting those millennials, the ve

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, that is like the pot calling the kettle black. We have been clear and transparent right from the very beginning. I would remind my colleague across the way that it was literally two weeks into the 2015 campaign when the Liberals' fully costed plan came out. We will