Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for having me here today. I'm the executive director at Watershed Watch Salmon Society. We're a charity that's been advocating for the conservation of B.C.'s wild salmon for over 25 years. I've been with the society since 2008. Much of my work here

Mental Health and Addictions   sweep the pitch for needles. The legion and many businesses in Mission have to deal with crack smoke every day. When will the government do the right thing and cancel its ideologically extreme experiment to legalize hard drugs, and start protecting B.C.'s children?

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal minister responsible for legalizing hard drugs is misleading Canadians. Yesterday she told Canadians that the Liberals were waiting for further information from British Columbia in response to B.C.'s request to end the legalization experiment. However

Public Safety   has fled the country. Canadians have lost faith in our justice system. Despite the Prime Minister 's inaction, extortion is a federal responsibility. The Criminal Code is federal. The RCMP responsible for catching these criminals is federal. The catch-and-release bail policies

Justice committee   labour minister Seamus O'Regan was going on one of his famous tangents against Canadian parents. Ms. Mbarki said, “I am always very skeptical when the federal government gets involved in saying how parents should parent. Have we forgotten about residential schools? The 60's scoop? Off

Justice committee  , The reality is that without s. 43, Canada's broad assault law would criminalize force falling far short of what we think of as corporal punishment, like placing an unwilling child in a chair for a five-minute “time-out”. That brings me to our amendment, Conservative motion number 1

Bill C-388 An Act to fast track energy and mining projects and to facilitate the provision of munitions to Ukraine and develop its munitions industry

-20; 2001, c. 33, s.2(F) Export Development Act 7 Section 10 of the Export Development Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1.01): Development of munitions manufacturing capacity in Ukraine (1.011) In carrying out its purpose under paragraph (1)(c

Bill S-209 An Act respecting Pandemic Observance Day

Short Title Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Pandemic Day Act . Pandemic Observance Day Pandemic Observance Day 2 Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the 11th day of March is to be known as “Pandemic Observance Day”.

Citizenship and Immigration committee   times; and has been previously convicted of mischief charges. The 2023 court decision indicate[s] that Mr. Haq has “shown disdain for the rule of law and he has publicly encouraged others to break the law.” Court documents indicate that Mr. Haq helped organize a road closure

The Budget   and the next, according to the Bank of Canada and the IMF. We continue to have a AAA credit rating. Only 11 countries in the world have that. We have the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7, and it continues on a downward track. Canada's balance sheet remains the best of the G7's

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, from the beginning, we have been there to work on an evidence-based, science-based, compassionate public health approach to the opioid epidemic, and that included responding to B.C.'s request for a pilot program. Now that it is asking to adjust the pilot program, we

Public Safety   the radical B.C. NDP admitted to last week. The Liberals ignored evidence when they granted B.C.'s request, and overdose deaths skyrocketed by 400%. The city of Toronto is now asking the government to legalize cocaine, heroin and fentanyl, like it did in B.C. That would mean kids

The Budget   at Canada's fiscal framework, its fiscal management and our AAA credit rating from all the credit rating agencies: Moody's, S&P, Morningstar DBRS. I can hear some chirping from the other side. I understand that when it comes to being polite and when it comes to decorum, sometimes

Mental Health and Addictions   the government would end this deadly experiment if public health and safety indicators were not met. Both are failing, and B.C.'s NDP premier is now pleading with the Prime Minister to rescue them from this failed policy, yet the Minister of Addictions refuses immediate action. Now the Prime

The Budget  Before I go to questions and comments, I want to apologize to the hon. member for Cumberland—Colchester. I asked him to withdraw a word. The sound of that word came over here and I thought he had said the S-word, but it turns out he said the word “shady” and not what I thought