Status of Women  Madam Speaker, I am sure the parliamentary secretary will go back to her cabinet meeting tomorrow and get a big slap on the back for putting up another smokescreen about my bill. Of course, the member knows it is not a quota; it is an incentive system. Of course, she knows that t

Status of Women  Madam Speaker, I guess I get to continue my previous speech, because this adjournment proceeding is on the debate with the Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women. This debate arose when the Minister of Democratic Institutions and the parliamentary secretary supposedly

Candidate Gender Equity Act  Madam Speaker, it is a great pleasure to stand here today, and it has been a pleasure listening to the debate, or most of it, on my bill. I would ask members to take a look around the House of Commons. This is a place of moments. This is the place where we decided women should

Candidate Gender Equity Act  I am being heckled by the Conservatives.

Candidate Gender Equity Act  Madam Speaker, I understand that passions run high, but it is time to actually come clean and we are going to do that tomorrow night. When we have the vote on the bill tomorrow night, there will be a call that essentially asks whether each member is a feminist or is not a femini

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have to do more than just call themselves feminists; they need to take action here. For example, in 1929, the legal definition of “person” was expanded to include women. One would think that after 87 years we would have reached gender equity in all aspec

Canadian Human Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to applaud my colleague for his speech. This is a very important day here in the House of Commons. I wonder if the member could perhaps add some personal flavour to his speech, and tell us of trans folks that he knows and some of the struggles they have

Canadian Human Rights Act  Madam Speaker, I want to say how honoured I have been to sit beside my friend who has put all of this effort into a great cause. I would like to thank him for all of his efforts. Could he go through again and tell us a little about what he has done to get to this place today and

Canadian Human Rights Act  Madam Speaker, first, I have had the privilege of succeeding Bill Siksay as the MP for Burnaby South, who has worked on this issue for many years. I also had the great privilege of seconding the bill when my friend, the member for Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, put it forward in the la

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition signed by many constituents. The petitioners call on the government to support Bill C-237, the candidate gender equity act. The constituents point out that women still only hold 26% of the seats here in this place and Canada is ran

Paris Agreement  Madam Speaker, in talking about climate change, of course, one of the biggest projects we have on the table here in Canada is the Kinder Morgan pipeline, a new pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby. In fact, we might call the member for Burnaby North—Seymour the MP for Kinder Morgan,

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed my colleague's comments as always. It does not have to be a jobs versus killing people kind of debate. People who work in these industries work very hard and do nice jobs. I think it would be assuring for them to know that this committee had thoroughly stud

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, we have very able members who represent London and have for a long time. That is the kind of fogged question that just seeks to score political points rather than have actual debate. At issue here is the creation of a standing committee to review these issues. It is

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I have enjoyed listening to the debate. My colleagues have outlined in a very good way the details of this motion, why it is important, and some of the objections that should be taken into consideration. From my perspective, I think we have perhaps lost the plot a

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, Texas-based oil giant Kinder Morgan wants to build a pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby in order to export raw, undiluted bitumen to foreign countries. This is a bad idea. British Columbians take all the risk and get none of the reward. Kinder Morgan will pocket at