Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to thank everybody for taking the time today. Thank you to Ms. Sahota for bringing forth the motion, Mr. Harris for bringing forth the amendments and everybody for standing strong and in solidarity with Mr. Chong, the subcommittee and anybody who's been targeted by these sanctions.

Transport committee  I'll return it to my colleague Helena Jaczek.

Transport committee  Minister, thank you for being with us today. Thank you, as well, for the work you do. As a member from the Montreal area and as a Quebecker, I'd like to ask you about the REM, also known as the Réseau express métropolitain, and about the station that's being built at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I always like to take the hopeful and optimistic look. I would like to believe that everything we are doing here, this conversation included, is nudging things in the right direction. I think the decision of Parliament with respect to the motion at hand is an open question, so I do not want to speculate about what the negative impact could be, but I do understand and know that all of this, including the member raising this question, is moving things in the right direction.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I weigh heavily every single action that is taken around this. Members have heard me speak to the findings of the subcommittee, which were unanimous, and all of my Liberal colleagues on the committee did vote for the SDIR findings, so we stand united on that. I stand by the determination that genocide is, in fact, occurring in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, as do so many parliamentarians across the line.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs noted at the beginning of his statement that the China of today is different from the China of not so long ago. The country has changed a lot with respect to its leadership in the last five years, and this statement alone demonstrates that there is a rethink of our engagement.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Saint-Jean for sharing her time with me. I would also like to pick up on what the member said. I am speaking as a parliamentarian who has heard a lot of the testimony from concentration camp survivors, from experts, from former ministers of government, and from diplomats.

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, hatred and extremism often target diverse communities. We must stop anyone who seeks to harm others because of their race, religion or gender. Unfortunately, we continue to see hate manifested in our country. Recently, a Montreal synagogue was vandalized. In my home province of Quebec, we just marked the fourth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack.

Religious Freedom  Mr. Speaker, four years ago, a peaceful place of worship was rocked by an act of terror. Ibrahima Barry, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Abdelkrim Hassane, Azzedine Soufiane, Aboubaker Thabti. They were fathers and husbands, loved by many. Yesterday, our government announced its intention to make January 29 a national day of remembrance of the Quebec City mosque attack and action against Islamophobia.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My girls are in the background. I apologize in advance if they're making a lot of sounds. I want to ask you quickly, Ambassador Rae. I want to thank you for your comments around the Uighur people. Our committee found unanimously that genocide is, in fact, occurring against the Uighur people in China.

COVID-19 Pandemic  Madam Speaker, the pandemic has hit families within my riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard. Especially hard hit are those families with children with disabilities. Amelia is a four-year-old girl in my riding. She has an extremely rare genetic condition. Amelia cannot walk, cannot sit and cannot see.

Justice committee  I would like to support what Mr. Garrison just said. We know there are a number of other amendments coming forth from both the Green Party and the NDP. I would like us to give those full consideration. As the chair mentioned, if we vote on this now, then we won't be giving full consideration to the other amendments.

Canada-China Relations committee  I want to thank Peter for that. Ambassador Barton, thank you for being with us and for your very important work around Tibet. Thanks also for continuing to engage with the region. We hope to hear more from you in the future. I'm going to shift gears for a moment and pick up on what some of my colleagues in this committee have touched upon, which is about the Uighur people.

Canada-China Relations committee  No worries; that's fine.

Justice committee  I want to thank all the witnesses for being here. Also, I want to underscore what my colleague Mr. Virani just said, which was that we all are coming from different perspectives. We all have strong opinions on this, and that's normal. I think our duty here is to listen to each other, to do so in good faith, and to consider fully the testimony that we are hearing at this moment.