Anti-terrorism Act, 2015  Mr. Speaker, I have to start off by marking another milestone for the government. This marks the 88th time the government has moved time allocation or closure to limit debate in the House. It is particularly shocking this time because we had not even finished the fourth speech. W

Anti-terrorism Act, 2015  Mr. Speaker, I listened with care to the member for Papineau's address on Bill C-51 and I am still having trouble making sense out of the position he has taken. It is the primary duty of members of this House to give a full and complete review of bills and to stand up to bad bi

Anti-terrorism Act, 2015  Mr. Speaker, as usual the Leader of the Opposition has elevated the debate in the House, clearly laying out what is at stake with this legislation. I want to ask him about something he talked about at the beginning of his speech and then reflected on at the end. We all came toge

Anti-terrorism Act, 2015  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. minister for his remarks, in which he again made reference to a full debate. Earlier in his speech he talked about giving some answers to items from question period. I will go back to the question I asked him in question period, to which he responded

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the issue of countering terrorism in Canada and doing what is necessary to protect Canadians while preserving our rights and freedoms is a profoundly serious debate. Canadians expect that all parliamentarians will do their jobs and stand up against any legislation th

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, I did not hear a commitment to full debate. All I heard was a reference to starting the debate. This is not the kind of approach that Canadians expect from their government on this serious issue. The Conservatives have put forward legislation that would simply go t

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, this last exchange really illustrates to me the problem with these wild titles that are assigned for essentially propagandistic purposes and lead us to debate a topic that is really irrelevant to what is before us in the House today instead of talking about what is a

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, I enjoy sitting parallel with the hon. member as the Liberal critic at the public safety committee. I think he is as committed as I am to looking at the actual evidence when it comes to the problem of drug addition within prisons. As I said in my remarks and will s

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question reminds me of two things I need to say. One is that nothing in our remarks about family visits and the addiction problem was meant to imply that families are the main source of drugs in prison. They are not. The second is the question of manda

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, I believe the rules of the House are clear with respect to not casting aspersions on whether other members are being truthful in their presentations to the House, and I would ask the parliamentary secretary to withdraw those remarks.

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, with respect, I disagree with the hon. member on double-bunking. If she looked at any of the independent evidence, not the government's own evaluations of itself on double-bunking but those from experts in corrections, it will show that double-bunking has a negative

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to start by saying that we are supporting this bill at third reading because of its narrowness. That is not something people would recognize from looking at the title. They would think this bill had sweeping and miraculous provisions allowing Correctional Se

Drug-Free Prisons Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister for his remarks. It is true that the NDP has supported the bill. I want to ask the minister if he will admit that the only thing the bill would really do is put into law the practices of the Parole Board of removing parole from those who fail d

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the word “lawful” is a new insertion there, which seems to say that most dissent is something other than lawful. Today the government failed to give us a single example of the new activities CSIS would be allowed to engage in to disrupt under Bill C-51. The minister

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, Canadians are right to be concerned that the Conservatives are going too far with this bill. Yesterday the minister failed to explain how the bill would impact legitimate dissent, and so today let us talk about another section. Bill C-51 proposes a new criminal offe