Agriculture committee  Thanks, Chair. I would like to reserve the right to put some amendments into the preamble. My position and the position of the NDP is quite clear, and I want to make sure that it's on the record that we do support Bill C-234 in its original form. We will be voting to reject

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, related to today's discussion is Bill C-234. Conservatives have been campaigning loudly about how they would like to see the Senate amendments to that bill rejected and it be passed in its original form. I can say now, as I have said before, that the NDP supports

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I'd like to thank all of the witnesses for helping to guide this committee through our study of Bill C-355. Captain Perry, I'd like to start with you. I appreciate how clear you are with the amendments. You specifically mentioned the sections

Questions on the Order Paper   investigations concluded that consumers were being harmed; and (c) what are the details of all investigations into practices that hurt consumers that have been initiated by the Task Force in (a), including, the (i) name of the grocer being investigated, (ii) conduct being investigated, (iii

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  ) purpose of the engagement, (iii) partner, expert, or representative being engaged; (c) what work has been done with consumer groups to report findings to Canadians, including the (i) date that work was initiated, (ii) consumer group with which work was done, (iii) details

Agriculture committee   have two bills. We have Bill C-355, which is before this committee right now, but we also have a bill from Senator Dalphond in the Senate. We have two different legislative approaches. We have private members' bills looking at this. In all of the time the department has had

Government Business No. 35—Extension of Sitting Hours and Conduct of Extended Proceedings  Madam Speaker, I am going to try to lower the temperature. I really want to put today's motion in the context of Bill C-50 because I think that bill in particular illustrates the reasoning behind the motion. When Bill C-50 was at committee, the Conservatives, I highly suspect

Agriculture committee  Well, Minister, I think there is also room for improvement. Let's take the Competition Bureau, the Competition Act and indeed the Competition Tribunal. A couple of weeks ago, there was an important vote in the House of Commons on NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's bill, Bill C‑352

Agriculture committee  I want to get to another question. I heard your opening comments about Bill C-234, and speaking for the NDP, I'll say we're supportive of the bill that was passed at third reading in the House of Commons. I understand the costs that you associated with that, but we also had

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Dr. Gaind, every problem we've had with this particular issue of mental disorder as the sole underlying medical condition you can trace all the way back to that eleventh-hour Senate amendment to Bill C-7. I was here during the 43rd Parliament. I

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, on the situation we find ourselves in this week, and last year with Bill C-39, we can draw a direct line back to the Senate amendment that was placed on Bill C-7. The government did a complete 180. It came out with a charter statement explaining why it was excluding

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that we have gotten ourselves into trouble with the use of arbitrary timelines. The Senate amendment to Bill C-7 kicked the can down the road two years. Last year's Bill C-39 added a year, and now Bill C-62 would add three years. I just want

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, I would like to inform the you that I will be splitting my time. Today, we are not debating Bill C-62; we are actually debating Motion No. 34, which is a programming motion to get the bill through the House of Commons. We are having to resort to a tactic that I

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, the New Democrats actually also voted against what I thought was an ill-advised Senate amendment to Bill C-7. There is plenty of blame to be thrown around. I understand that. I have done more than my fair share this week against the Liberals, but the fact

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, I agree with many points my hon. colleague made in her speech. It is why I voted against the Senate amendment to Bill C-7 in the previous Parliament. It is why I voted for the member for Abbotsford's bill, Bill C-314. It is why I agree with the recommendation