Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, New Democrats have been calling for that for a long time. My entire speech was to get at the point that there is no balance. The government's responsibility is to provide a balance, and that is out of play right now. We need to ensure that people pay their fair sha

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, yes, this needs a whole-of-government approach, and all partners need to work together. This has become a crisis that governments have watched happen, which they have created over the last 30 years. However, there have also been a lot of gaffes in the federal gover

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, that is an absolutely ridiculous statement. New Democrats are not members of the government. We are trying to use some of the power we have to deliver on the commitments we made to people on the doorsteps. We have not seen anything from the Conservative Party becau

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, everyone knows that times are really tough right now. Canadians are suffering; housing and grocery prices are higher than ever, and they continue to go up. There is a real need for the government to intervene and adopt public policies to try to circumvent these cir

Petitions  Madam Speaker, I am honoured to stand in this place and present a petition. The petitioners are concerned that, as part of federal defence department training exercises, over 1,800 piglets have been killed after being stabbed, mutilated and exposed to radiation and chemical nerv

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the Deputy Prime Minister recently praised a shady corporate landlord named Dream Unlimited Corp. for building more housing in Toronto, where rent averages $2,600 a month for a one-bedroom. What has Dream Unlimited done in Toronto? It has jacked up rent in its buildi

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague and I are both Ontario-based MPs. It has been asked in the House several times, and yesterday, during conversations about the bill, I was asking about the Conservative housing plan. One of the key things that strikes me is that they want to sell o

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, earlier one of the member's colleagues had talked about the bill as something that would be “transformational” and so critical, yet I found that a bit hyperbolic, considering we know this is a good first step, but only one of so many that are needed, in terms of ho

Retirement Congratulations  Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate my constituent Florence Douglas on her retirement and long service to air force veterans at 427 Wing in London. Twenty-six years ago, Flo was hired as a temporary bar steward at the wing, but after only a few months, the directors made her a f

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I was interested in one of the points that the hon. member made in her speech about selling off public land. In my riding, land is available, but it has been so financialized, and housing has been so financialized. However, I want to ask her specifically about se

Excise Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for Cumberland—Colchester for tabling this important bill, Bill C-323, an act to amend the Excise Tax Act, mental health services. As members know, the bill would expand the category of health care services exempt from point-of-sale taxes to inc

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals finally listened to the NDP and tabled their housing plan to remove the GST from building new homes, but people in London are getting evicted by rich developers. Liberals and Conservatives have spent the last 30 years creating this housing crisis and hav

Allegations Against Government of India  Madam Chair, earlier today in the debate, it was mentioned that there are those in this place who are putting trade policy before human rights. I would like to hear my hon. colleague's reaction to that and thoughts on it.

Allegations Against Government of India  Mr. Chair, I know a lot of us, and I mentioned this before, have probably been reaching out to those in our community who are greatly impacted by this, members of the Sikh community. I was having a conversation tonight, and one of the community members asked me, “What will it ta

Allegations Against Government of India  Mr. Chair, I want to thank the hon. member for her speech and commitment tonight to this take-note debate. As so many of us have, I am sure, I have been trying to reach out to folks in our own communities, our own ridings, from the Sikh community. I had a really moving conversa