Municipal Elections  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank and congratulate all the candidates who were elected in the municipal elections on October 22, 2018. I look forward to working with them. I want to thank everyone who had the courage to run, as well as all the volunteers who worked so hard duri

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I am glad the member mentioned the amount of dollars seized in terms of drug seizures. It is why, as part of that response, we will be putting body scanners in prisons to ensure those drugs do not get into our prison system. I agree with the member, there should be a

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, administrative segregation could force an inmate to go a whole day without human contact. The new bill will ensure that inmates get human contact, especially with mental health professionals. That is the difference.

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear my colleague use the word “terrorist”. The Conservatives talked a good game about this and were very hard on terrorists, but they did not manage to put a single terrorist behind bars in 10 years. We have sent many terrorists to prison, so I am

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I will repeat that when an inmate is placed in this special unit, the warden will examine the case and decide whether the inmate must remain there. Subsequent reviews will be done by the warden after 30 days and by the commiss

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to support Bill C-83. This bill represents a fundamental change in the way we approach corrections in Canada. It would end the practice of administrative segregation in all federal correctional facilities. What is more, it would implement

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I have heard the Leader of the Opposition say that he would have negotiated a better deal, but that same member could not even negotiate with his own caucus member, which resulted in the People's Party of Canada, so welcome to that. Getting back to the facts, is the

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, if offenders walk into our prison system with a bachelor of offences and walk out with a Ph.D. of offences, then our prison system has failed them. We know that administrative segregation has caused deaths in our prison system. Of course, we are talking about the c

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent speech, even though I do not agree with everything he said. First, life in prison is not going to be a party. Far from it. The member knows this because he said he visited several prisons. When we enact legislation, we have to

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I would like to remind the House that laws do not take precedence over the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That is why Bill C-83 exists. Members opposite seem to be saying that there will not be any solitary confinement at all an

Employment Insurance  Mr. Speaker, in budget 2018, our government announced a major step forward in terms of equality. In June 2019, we will introduce a new EI parental sharing benefit to help parents share the work of raising their children more equally. Can the Minister of Families, Children and So

Franco-Ontarian Day  Mr. Speaker, September 25 is Franco-Ontarian Day. Today, I got to celebrate this great day with the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism at L'Escale Catholic high school in Rockland. Our ancestors would be proud to see the initiative and creativity that our school

Health  Mr. Speaker, today is World Alzheimer's Day, an annual event where people around the world come together to raise awareness about Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, affects more than 400,000 Canadians aged 65 and older, two-t

Firearms Act  Madam Speaker, I commend my colleague for his speech, but I think an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants contains more factual information than his speech did. With regard to the registry, my colleague does not seem to understand that, when an individual purchases a firearm from a

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the witnesses for being here this afternoon. Mr. Paschini, you said that you have to import most of the metal construction parts, and then re-export them. I imagine that Terrebonne serves markets in eastern North America. Have you