Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, my colleague opposite said that climate change is real, and the flooding that is occurring across the country right now is a concrete example of that. For weeks and even months now, young people have been taking to the streets of Montreal every Friday to send a clea

Youth  Mr. Speaker, do you know what issue children and youth respond to the most? The health of the planet and global warming. Unfortunately, last week we learned that Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average. Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child r

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like my colleague to comment on the fact that the budget provides for compensation for farmers for the concessions that were made in all of the trade agreements that were signed except for the one with the United States and Mexico. However, to date, no progr

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his passion. I believe that he truly wants to reduce inequality. I heard him speak about seniors, among other things. Less than two weeks ago, I held a round table for the people from the Table de concertation des aînés de Beauharnois-Salabe

Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Madam Speaker, the NDP will support this bill, since it addresses a number of the Harper government's failures, which caused a lot of harm to indigenous peoples. However, the bill is lacking some measures with respect to infrastructure, drinking water and education in indigenous

Commissioner for Young Persons in Canada Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-441, An Act respecting the Office of the Commissioner for Young Persons in Canada. Mr. Speaker, after four failed attempts, I finally have the honour and privilege to introduce this bill, which seeks to establish a commissioner for young perso

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, for four days now, the government has been preventing us from introducing a private member's bill. I therefore seek unanimous consent to introduce my bill, which would create a federal youth commissioner and help lift thousands of young people across the country ou

Government Response to Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Since the House has been skipping routine proceedings since the beginning of the week, I have not been able to introduce my bill to create a federal youth commissioner position in Canada. I therefore seek unanimous consent to introduce my

Daughters of the Vote  Mr. Speaker, today, all members of the House acknowledge the 338 participants of the Daughters of the Vote program, which was created by the organization Equal Voice. I had the opportunity to speak to some of them yesterday, and their passion was written all over their faces. It

Government Response to Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I was supposed to introduce an important bill today to protect children and create a youth commissioner position, but the government cut short routine proceedings. The bill would ensure that vulnerable children are protected. I seek unani

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, regarding the motion currently before the House, you will note that the English and French versions in today's Notice Paper are inconsistent. There are in fact several errors in the French version. It is rather difficult to follow. I would ask that you come up with a

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to housing investments and housing assets held by the government: (a) how much federal funding has been spent on housing in Salaberry—Suroît over the period of 1995 to 2017, broken down by year and by municipality; (b) how much federal funding is scheduled to be spent

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to federal funding in the constituency of Salaberry—Suroît, between April 2016 and January 2019: (a) what applications for funding have been received, including for each (i) the name of the organization, (ii) the department, (iii) the program and sub-program through w

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, speaking of not having a plan, more than 150,000 students in Quebec went on strike on Friday to call for action on climate change. They are calling on governments to take action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. They are sounding the alarm because the g

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, many experts have spoken out against this bill. As the member said, we are talking about structured intervention units, which is just another way of saying “administrative segregation”. The member said this bill reduces the amount of time in administrative segregati