Foreign Affairs committee  Canada has been consistently among the top six official development assistance donors in each of the four countries in the Middle East under the strategy, those being Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Two hundred million square metres of land have been cleared of explosives in Iraq and Syria. We provided some specialized training in the region, as well as equipment, and $1.5 billion just in terms of humanitarian assistance to ensure that folks have the proper food, water and shelter, and improved education.

National Defence committee  Recently the CBC came out with a report on the training and weapons that Canadian Armed Forces was providing to war criminals in Iraq. Canadian soldiers tried to warn their superiors in Ottawa about what they were seeing. War criminals were showing them videos and bragging about gruesome torture, rape, and extrajudicial killings.

Foreign Affairs committee  In this respect, Iran's rhetoric in support of Hamas, statements by the terrorist group Hezbollah and the launching of rockets into and towards Israel and American forces by actors affiliated with Iran and Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen are all deeply concerning. Canadian representatives at all levels are continuing to work with our partners in the region and around the world to deal with the situation. The government remains determined to enforce international law and support the right of Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security.

Foreign Affairs committee  This funding will allow for programming of Global Affairs Canada's continued implementation of the strategy to address instability in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. There is $63.6 million to support Global Affairs Canada's implementation of Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy through increased engagement in the Indo-Pacific region and enhanced economic linkages and trade and investment ties with the Indo-Pacific partners.

Foreign Affairs committee  The ICC is not an especially well-funded court. It gets, I think, the equivalent of an hour of military expenditure from the Iraq war, less than sports teams get on this continent, and it has all of its jurisdiction to deal with and so many different situations. Again, under the best of circumstances, it might be able to prosecute a handful of individuals, but the litany of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other allegations that we're seeing, I think demand something in addition to just the ICC.

Fall Economic Statement  All of this was despite a once-in-a-lifetime financial crisis in the U.S. and wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and, yes, Ukraine. It is funny how those wars did not cause inflation when Prime Minister Harper was leading our economy. It is true that when the Prime Minister took office, Canada was rich, affordable and safe.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We have increased our budgetary allocation to reach children with disabilities to at least 5% of every program. You can see the kind of work we do with local organizations in Iraq and Colombia, to mention just a few. So far, we have reached over 100,000 children, who then receive Braille typewriters, sign language interpretation, long canes and infrastructure that will enable them to go to school.

Finance committee  There are geopolitical implications inherent in a commodity of such significance and volume. The contemporary histories of Russia, Iran, Venezuela...Iraq [and others] are intertwined with their roles as major oil producers, roles [that] they have used to advance their (often illiberal) interests on the world stage. It is fair to ask why Canada has never seen fit to advance its own values and interests through its vast energy reserves.

Carbon Pricing  I have one here where she did backflips to attempt to apologize for an anti-gay remark she made in the House. There was another time when the MP compared abortion to an Iraq beheading. The list goes on of when the member peddled deranged conspiracy theories about the Liberals. I will read from this article in which the Conservative member was promoting deranged conspiracy theories akin to those promulgated by supporters of former U.S. president Donald Trump.

National Defence committee  .; as well as international civil protection, capacity-building missions in Jordan, in Tunisia, in northern Iraq, in Algeria, in Morocco, in Ukraine for the procurement and transport of equipment for different stakeholders, in Lebanon for urban search and rescue after the explosion at a chemical warehouse, and in Mozambique for water purification and drinking water supply after the cyclone.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It is also possible, I think, in Canada, as you have put it, to work outside the UNHCR refugee system to accept refugees who come in and are supported by church groups, by many other people, by mosques, by all kinds of people. I think that's a really good way around this problem. We saw the same thing in Iraq. I've been to Kurdistan I don't know how many times now. The UNHCR there was also too heavily influenced by non-Kurdish people, so Christians often didn't make it through.

Foreign Affairs committee  It seems to me that this rogue state has a band around it that is potentially engaged in this, whether it is directly with Hamas—which it appears to be, but I don't know—or with Hezbollah in perhaps causing instability in Lebanon, which we are watching very closely, or with action in Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Is there any intelligence you can provide to this committee on what we're watching? I don't want you to be hypothetical. What do we know? It seems to me that this, again, is elevating our concerns about Iran.

Foreign Affairs committee  In this respect, Iran's rhetoric and support of Hamas, statements by the terrorist group Hezbollah, and the launching of rockets into and towards Israel and American forces by actors affiliated with Iran in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen are all deeply concerning. Canadian representatives at all levels are continuing to engage with our partners in the region and around the world in dealing with the situation.

National Defence committee  In my experience, even in working with L3Harris, I know that we've deployed the CC-150 Polaris into Kuwait, and it has operated out of Iraq with civilians supporting that capability for four years. Having deployed in fighters around the world, I have not seen a conflict where we couldn't have technicians on the ground supporting those capabilities, like in Aviano or in Kuwait or in other places.

National Defence committee  They go to questionable recipients such as Saudi Arabia and have been misused, such as in the case of Turkey, where Canada has authorized the export of drone-mounted targeting technology produced by L3Harris WESCAM, despite the fact that Turkey has misused it in Iraq and in Syria and has shipped it to Libya and, despite a UN arms embargo, has diverted it to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and to its ally Azerbaijan, which has been accused of committing abuses during the course of that conflict.