Privilege  What is also exceptional is the seemingly exponential increase in the cost of the simple expenditures of running government. I believe it is 43%, but do not quote me on the number. We are seeing an explosion in the ability for contractors to intentionally mislead, whether it is what the company does at a two-person firm run out of somebody's basement; what its name stands for, in terms of GC versus Government of Canada; or even the plethora of other contracts that the government seems to be quick to throw money at.

Privilege  The confusion that it has endeavoured to throw at this seems intentional in what we see as an exponential explosion of contracting by the Liberal Party, which was backed by the NDP every step of the way. That is exactly the point. It manipulated the facts and the truth for its political agenda so it could get contracts or so, when somebody looked through a procurement list, they would see GC Strategies and maybe think that it must be another department under Treasury Board or something like that.

Government Operations committee  This is just a part of Liberal efforts to limit the amount of real exposure for their ministers to have to respond to questions. We're in the midst of this explosive scandal involving government procurement. We've been told that ministers effectively don't do very much when it comes to the actual processes of the procurement involved. I think we have a lot of questions for which we need answers.

Government Operations committee  Okay. In this particular case, you didn't think that a very explosive document by an auditor who has been in the business of auditing for decades.... You have no auditing experience, do you?

Foreign Affairs committee  Can you tell me why our ambassador to the UN would use such a highly explosive term at a time when probably the last thing you would want to do is exacerbate a really explosive situation within the region?

Public Safety committee  Can you share what you're hearing from your members about some of the ways they're practically trying to fill in the gaps being created by the revolving door of the justice system, in order to combat the explosion in the rate of stolen vehicles in this country?

Bill C-63 An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reportin…

PART 1 Online Harms Act Enactment of Act Enactment 1 The Online Harms Act is enacted as follows: An Act respecting online harms Short Title Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Online Harms Act . Interpretation and Application Definitions 2 (1) The following definitions apply in this Act. child  means a person who is under 18 years of age. ( enfant ) Commission  means the Digital Safety Commission of Canada established by section 10 . ( Commission ) content that foments hatred  means content that expresses detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination, within the meaning of the Canadian Human Rights Act , and that, given the context in which it is communicated, is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of such a prohibited ground. ( contenu fomentant la haine ) content that incites violence  means content that actively encourages a person to commit — or that actively threatens the commission of — an act of physical violence against a person or an act that causes property damage, and that, given the context in which it is communicated, could cause a person to commit an act that could cause (a) serious bodily harm to a person; (b) a person’s life to be endangered; or (c) serious interference with or serious disruption of an essential service, facility or system. ( contenu incitant à la violence ) content that incites violent extremism or terrorism  means content that actively encourages a person to commit — or that actively threatens the commission of — for a political, religious or ideological purpose, an act of physical violence against a person or an act that causes property damage, with the intention of intimidating or denouncing the public or any section of the public or of compelling a person, government or domestic or international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act, and that, given the context in which it is communicated, could cause a person to commit an act that could cause (a) serious bodily harm to a person; (b) a person’s life to be endangered; or (c) a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or any section of the public. ( contenu incitant à l’extrémisme violent ou au terrorisme ) content that induces a child to harm themselves  means content that advocates self-harm, disordered eating or dying by suicide or that counsels a person to commit or engage in any of those acts, and that, given the context in which it is communicated, could cause a child to inflict injury on themselves, to have an eating disorder or to die by suicide. ( contenu poussant un enfant à se porter préjudice ) content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor  means (a) a visual representation that shows a child, or a person depicted as being a child, who is engaged in or depicted as being engaged in explicit sexual activity; (b) a visual representation that depicts the sexual organs or anal region of a child, if it is reasonable to suspect that the representation is created or communicated for a sexual purpose; (c) written material or an audio recording whose dominant characteristic is the description, presentation or representation of explicit sexual activity with a child, if it is reasonable to suspect that the material or recording is created or communicated for a sexual purpose; (d) a visual representation, written material or an audio recording that shows, describes, presents or represents any of the following, if it is reasonable to suspect that the representation, material or recording is created or communicated for a sexual purpose: (i) a person touching, in a sexual manner, directly or indirectly, with a part of their body or with an object, any part of the body of a child or a person depicted as being a child, (ii) a person who is engaged in or depicted as being engaged in explicit sexual activity in the presence of a child or a person depicted as being a child, or (iii) a person exposing their sexual organs or anal region in the presence of a child or a person depicted as being a child; (e) a visual representation, written material or an audio recording in which or by means of which sexual activity between a person who is 18 years of age or more and a child is advocated, counselled or planned, other than one in which or by means of which sexual activity between a person who is 16 years of age or more but under 18 years of age and another person who is less than two years older than that person is advocated, counselled or planned; (f) a visual representation that shows a child who is being subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading acts of physical violence; (g) any excerpt of a visual representation referred to in paragraph (a), if it is reasonable to suspect that the communication of the excerpt perpetuates harm against a person who as a child appeared in the visual representation; and (h) a visual representation, written material or an audio recording that, given the context in which it is communicated, is likely to bring to light a connection between a person and a visual representation, written material or audio recording referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) in which the person appeared as a child, if it is reasonable to suspect that the communication of the representation, material or recording that is likely to bring to light that connection perpetuates harm against the person. ( contenu représentant de la victimisation sexuelle d’enfants ou perpétuant la victimisation de survivants ) content used to bully a child  means content, or an aggregate of content, that, given the context in which it is communicated, could cause serious harm to a child’s physical or mental health, if it is reasonable to suspect that the content or the aggregate of content is communicated for the purpose of threatening, intimidating or humiliating the child. ( contenu visant à intimider un enfant ) harmful content  means (a) intimate content communicated without consent; (b) content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor; (c) content that induces a child to harm themselves; (d) content used to bully a child; (e) content that foments hatred; (f) content that incites violence; and (g) content that incites violent extremism or terrorism. ( contenu préjudiciable ) Indigenous peoples of Canada  has the meaning assigned by the definition aboriginal peoples of Canada in subsection 35(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 . ( peuples autochtones du Canada ) intimate content communicated without consent  means (a) a visual recording, such as a photographic, film or video recording, in which a person is nude or is exposing their sexual organs or anal region or is engaged in explicit sexual activity, if it is reasonable to suspect that (i) the person had a reasonable expectation of privacy at the time of the recording, and (ii) the person does not consent to the recording being communicated; and (b) a visual recording, such as a photographic, film or video recording, that falsely presents in a reasonably convincing manner a person as being nude or exposing their sexual organs or anal region or engaged in explicit sexual activity, including a deepfake that presents a person in that manner, if it is reasonable to suspect that the person does not consent to the recording being communicated. ( contenu intime communiqué de façon non consensuelle ) Minister  means the member of the King’s Privy Council for Canada designated under section 8 or, if no member is designated, the Minister of Canadian Heritage.‍ ( ministre ) Office  means the Digital Safety Office of Canada established by section 39 . ( Bureau ) Ombudsperson  means the Digital Safety Ombudsperson of Canada appointed under section 29 . ( ombudsman ) operator   means a person that, through any means, operates a regulated service

Business of Supply  Also, under questioning, their officials at committee confirmed the same. This scandal has seen explosive testimony at committee with allegations of bribery and extortion, and evidence of corruption, forgery, fraud and threats. After we forced meetings last week, including testimony by the Information Commissioner, the Information Commissioner has launched her own investigation into the Prime Minister's and the NDP-Liberal government's $60-million scandal.

Information & Ethics committee  I go back to you because, ultimately, now you are the leader, the commissioner of the RCMP. How do you take responsibility for this? Given the highly politically explosive nature of this—it was literally a campaign question, I believe, in 2019, and it certainly continues to be a political question to this day, so many years later—how does that happen?

Transport committee  About five or six years ago, we were getting 7,000 to 8,000 complaints a year. There's really been an explosion in complaints over the last two years.

Veterans Affairs committee  I was put in an office, but I was still in the building. I couldn't be on the flight line. I needed to be away from possible explosions and paint jobs and away from exhaust fuel, which is carcinogenic. It was blowing toward the PMQs. Everything is going towards the children and towards the wives. It's a much bigger thing.

Foreign Affairs committee  The international community rightly condemned President Bashar al-Assad's denial of food and water to civilians in Aleppo, but Canada failed to condemn Israel's use of starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza. Similarly, Canada has been a global leader in banning explosive weapons like land mines and cluster munitions and in endorsing a new political declaration on explosive weapons, but the government directly undermined these efforts by remaining silent on Israel's recent use of white phosphorus in populated areas in Gaza and in Lebanon.

Foreign Affairs  When we look at permits for export to Israel in particular, in recent years, our government has not received and, therefore, has not approved any export permits for weapons: no permits for bombs, rockets, missiles or explosive devices. The permits issued since October 7 and, in fact, all permits that are currently open are for non-lethal equipment. I will reiterate that there are no current permits to export weapons or ammunition.

Canadian Heritage committee  Some of them have nothing to do with problems inside the news industry itself. Some of them have to do with the explosion of consumer choice. There are many options and ways you can spend your leisure time, and consuming the news is no longer a shared thing we do together. It's not modelled for us in the same way that it used to be.

National Council for Reconciliation Act  This is something that has been on my mind and the minds of many members today, of course, with the release of the explosive arrive scam report from the Auditor General. This report contains a variety of findings that I know we have had an opportunity to discuss and will have more opportunity to discuss in the House.