Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, one of the things the minister forgot to mention she said was that the bill lacked sufficient oversight. He is selectively quoting from his own witness. Despite the fact that leaders from faith communities have testified at public safety, they all agree that we urge

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, this week witness after witness has come forward to lay out the critical flaws in Bill C-51. Last night we heard from retired Supreme Court Justice John Major, who testified that the judicial warrant the Conservatives are fond of calling oversight is simply not over

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, that is just the opposite of what Justice Major told us last night, but I am not asking the minister to take my word for things here. I am asking him to listen to the legions of witnesses opposed to this bad bill. Even the Internet's Mozilla Foundation has come out

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, we had so many witnesses from so many different backgrounds and so many different political perspectives come before the public safety committee and all of them had the same message: Bill C-51 has serious problems. Yesterday, former Conservative senator Hugh Segal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the short answer to that is absolutely. Peter Ross, one of the world-renowned experts, has made that link. What happens is that the toxins attach themselves to the microbead plastics. They are ingested by plankton. They are eaten by the herring and the salmon, and

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, let me be very clear. I am saying that microbead plastics are one of the pollutants that are a threat to southern resident killer whales. They are not the only one. They may not even be the major one. The problem is that the government has eliminated the science unit

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question and for pointing out the very obvious thing, which is that the science exists. The science is very clear that microbead plastics are part of the problem here. They are not the whole problem, but they are part of the problem. As I

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise today to support the NDP opposition day motion to designate microbead plastics as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. As people will know from following the debate, microbeads were originally found in cleansers, and abou

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives came here to change Ottawa, but it seems like Ottawa has actually changed them. There was a time when the Conservatives would have been the first to speak up against legislation that so profoundly threatens our rights and freedoms, but now they cha

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. Bill C-51 is so problematic that even groups that normally support the Conservatives, like the National Firearms Association, are speaking out against it. When the government has lost even some of its closest allies because it is threatening the rig

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, speaking of common sense, we have had 12 witnesses appear before the public safety committee this week, witnesses from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives, and every single one of them has highlighted serious problems with Bill C-51. The bill is so bad tha

Privacy  Mr. Speaker, we will give the minister a second chance. The minister may not like what the Privacy Commissioner has to say, but that is no reason for the Conservatives to block him from the committee. Bill C-51 would make sweeping changes that would have serious privacy implica

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the minister's appearance at committee yesterday confirmed what Canadians already suspected: Bill C-51 is a dangerous piece of legislation that lacks proper safeguards. The Privacy Commissioner has sounded the alarm, saying that the bill is unprecedented and excessiv

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, like some of the members opposite, I fondly remember my best Christmas ever, and that was the Christmas I got a BB gun. I had the BB gun for some time before I moved on to harder weapons. Some might describe a BB gun as a gateway gun, and I am quite serious about t

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to my hon. colleague's explanation of his bill. He said something that concerned me at the end of his speech, which I will ask him about in one of my questions. Who did the member talk to before he prepared this bill? Did he consult police o