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Canada Post Mr. Speaker, I and my colleague from Vancouver East recently hosted a community town hall to hear our constituents' views about Canada Post's plan to end home delivery and double the price of stamps. A standing-room-only crowd attended and expressed unanimous opposition to these
February 26th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
International Trade Mr. Speaker, under the government, Canada's export performance has been in long-term decline and it continues to suffer. December figures reveal an even worse trade deficit than expected, now $1.7 billion, enough to knock a full point off our GDP in the fourth quarter, and we ha
February 11th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
International Trade Mr. Speaker, the minister should apologize for a $62-billion current account deficit in this country. According to the Bank of Canada, poor export performance is a major driver of our slow economic growth, and this means Conservative policies are costing us good, middle-class jo
February 11th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Fair Elections Act Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to represent the great riding of Vancouver Kingsway where, after constituents witnessed their elected member cross the floor to sit on the other side within two weeks of being elected in 2006, there was an explosion of anger in my riding and a real co
February 10th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Combating Counterfeit Products Act Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for the wonderful job she has been doing representing the justice file in this country and for helping to build a progressive, responsible justice policy for us. I was going to joke and say that every time I rise in the House,
January 31st, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Combating Counterfeit Products Act Mr. Speaker, hope springs eternal. We on this side of the House believe in a well-financed government. We think Canadians see an important role for government to play, particularly when it comes to enforcing basic rights and freedoms in our country. The ability of businesses in
January 31st, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Combating Counterfeit Products Act Mr. Speaker, I want to take this chance to tell the hon. member that it is a pleasure to work with him at committee. What is really important in this case is to make sure that we start collecting meaningful data not only to make sure that we understand the scope of the problem
January 31st, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Combating Counterfeit Products Act Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to stand today and speak to Bill C-8, An Act to amend the Copyright Act and the Trade-marks Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. It is also a particular pleasure to stand in the House when parties are in general agreement about
January 31st, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, first I would like to welcome the hon. member to the chamber and congratulate her on being appointed her party's international trade critic. Again, the issue here is not that Honduras is a small country and that it is poor; the issue is that Honduras is an undemocra
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, let us put this in context. Honduras is a country of about eight million and Canada of 35 million, so Canada is about four times the size. Imagine if the current Canadian government removed four members of the Supreme Court of Canada because it did not like the dec
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, I raised the issues of countries like Iran, North Korea and Ukraine to illustrate examples of countries to which we would not consider extending preferential terms. Each country is unique; sometimes they are unique in degrees. However, when there is a country like H
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, of course the issue before this House is Bill C-20, which is a trade agreement that purports to extend special trade preferences to a particular country. Trade occurs every day in this world, and the hon. member is quite correct about that; but when we sign a trade
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. friend for that question, but again, decision-based fact-making seems to typify his government. The auto pact was actually opposed by the Conservatives, and the New Democrats pointed out problems, but it passed in this very chamber on division. In f
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, New Democrats believe that Canadians recognize the importance of trade to our economy and want an effective, strategic trade policy that expands trade opportunities and supports Canadian exporters. We believe that Canadians want a trade policy that produces good job
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP
Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act Mr. Speaker, extending preferential trade terms to other countries is a major economic privilege, and countries that are democratic and that respect environmental, human rights, and labour standards are deserving of this extension. The government of Honduras was essentially ins
January 29th, 2014House debate
Don DaviesNDP