Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2020  In other words, our debt levels in Canada today are higher than they were in the United States and Greece when they massive, iconic and devastating debt crises in the recent past. Therefore, we need now to pay heed as to why we think we can avoid the same thing. The only difference between them then and us now is that interest rates are low, but they will not stay that way forever.

Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2020  Government debt in particular has grown larger than Canada’s GDP, and that was the government's measuring stick. Our situation is worse than that faced by Greece during the sovereign debt crisis, or the United States during the 2008 financial crisis. Never before has our country faced such a burden of debt, with no plan to address it. Our deficit is higher than at any point in our history, now at 17% of our GDP.

National Strategy to Redress Environmental Racism Act  It was about a woman fighting an industry, but she was talking about financial precariousness. Today her struggle continues in Greece, but she is still talking about poverty. Ingrid Waldron, a professor and author who has high hopes for Bill C-230, looks at the real and important issue of environmental discrimination through the lens of race and colour.

Business of Supply  The Prime Minister's now revealed hidden agenda, a great reset, is based on the false assumption that magically massive public spending and deficits can generate economic growth. That is an act of deception. That plan has never worked. Ask the people of Greece or Cyprus if that plan worked for them. The next act of deception is what this reset budget means to older people, the ones who built this country. It used to be a common perception that the 18- to 35-year-old age group would be stuck with the bill for today’s spending, including the pre-COVID deficits.

Oxi Day  Speaker, this year, for the first time in over 30 years, Canada's foreign affairs minister paid an official visit to Greece to discuss the conflict in the eastern Mediterranean with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and his Greek counterpart. Speaking of Greece, today, October 28, Greeks around the world are celebrating Oxi Day, perhaps not all together like other years but virtually and in spirit, to commemorate 80 years since Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas's response to Bonito Mussolini's ultimatum to allow the Axis forces to enter Greece or go to war.

Foreign Affairs committee  Because humanitarians did not have a specific humanitarian mechanism to access it when we wanted to access it to vaccinate 5,000 refugee children in Greece, we were charged a price of $68.10 per dose. That's your gap. The funding of COVAX is absolutely essential. This is the international mechanism we're looking at for procuring vaccines for low- and middle-income countries.

Business of Supply  The raids were so sweeping, they bring to mind the lowest moments of the authoritarian regimes of Chile, Argentina, or Greece under the colonels. It is nothing to be proud of. We must acknowledge the harm and suffering inflicted on people who were unjustly arrested and families who lost a father, a husband or a friend.

Business of Supply  A total of 31,000 apartments and houses were searched and 500 arbitrary arrests were made. It resembled the authoritarian regimes of Chile, Argentina or Greece under the colonels. These police blunders would not have occurred had it not been for the suspension of civil rights and the invoking of the War Measures Act, which the NDP opposed at the time.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, that's great. I can certainly say he keeps raising ancient Greece, yet he will quote Luke. I didn't know you had been an altar boy. We've had this conversation in the past. It's really quite funny, because we're only about 400 years from each other in terms of deciding to quote figures from the past.

Government Business No. 8  In fact, we have among the highest unemployment rates in the OECD, falling fourth right behind Greece. This is should be a major wake-up call for the government. There is no doubt that Canadians are struggling. The last few months have been very difficult. Millions of people lost their jobs.

Proceedings of the House and Committees  For example, the canals in Venice ran clear; the mountains were visible in Wuhan; the Acropolis rose crystal-clear above the sea in Athens, Greece; city air was less polluted. This is all likely to be short-lived, however. Less pollution for the time being will not slow down the climate crisis. As all the experts say, a temporary reduction in emissions does not matter nearly as much as an ongoing, sustainable reduction.

Nova Scotia  On April 30, we lost six soldiers attached to HMCS Fredericton during a crash of their helicopter off the coast of Greece. Two of them were Nova Scotians. On Sunday, May 17, we lost Captain Jennifer Casey in the Snowbird crash in B.C. Since the current crisis prevents us from coming together, it is very difficult for all the families of the victims to overcome these tragic moments on their own.

Proceedings of the House and Committees  As the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, she knows that there has been a number of tragedies recently in the Canadian Armed Forces with the recent Snowbirds crash and the crash of the Cyclone maritime helicopter in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece. We have not had a chance, as parliamentarians, to discuss this. One of the things missing from this motion is that a number of standing committees are still not in operation, including the Standing Committee on National Defence.

Proceedings of the House and Committees  I was speaking with one of the small business owners in my riding, a franchisee of the OPA! of Greece restaurants. I think it is timely since it is the Orthodox holiday now. This gentleman, Raj Chahal, who is obviously not Greek, owns these restaurants. He lost 60% of his staff, and not solely related to COVID-19, but to the government's CERB program whose generosity means that his employees are choosing to stay home.

COVID-19 Pandemic committee  Can the Minister of National Defence give us an update as to the Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece last week?