Act To Revoke The Conviction Of Louis David Riel   in Montreal and heard Honoré Mercier speak his now famous words of tribute. Today, I am tabling a bill entitled "An Act to revoke the conviction of Louis David Riel". Some facts are worth recalling. In order to ensure a unanimous verdict, Prime Minister Macdonald had Riel tried in Regina

Act To Revoke The Conviction Of Louis David Riel  , according to Thomas in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography . In fact, the Macdonald government sacrificed Riel to the powerful Ontario Orangemen's lobby. To justify itself, cabinet goes as far as falsifying, in a report to this House, the report by Dr. Valade attesting that Riel

Agreement On Internal Trade Implementation Act   in Atlantic Canada about how we must become more competitive and less reliant on government. If we go back to 1989 there was a gentleman by the name of Dr. Charles McMillan who wrote a very good document called "Standing Up to the Future" in which he talked about the need for maritime

Supply   needs checks and balances and that is what an elected Senate would provide", he said. Even at that time it was recognized that the Senate is not accountable. Then there is Nova Scotia's John Macdonald, one of two lifetime appointees left in the Senate. At age 86 he said he is ready

Dr. Jake O'Connor  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with the colleagues of Dr. Jake O'Connor of Dartmouth who have bestowed on him the highest award of the Canadian College of Family Physicians by naming him family physician of the year for 1996. Dr. O'Connor has been practising family medicine

Income Tax Act   be chronically ill, aged or disabled I quote Dr. Benjamin Spock: "Children are made to love. Parents love children because they remember being loved so much by their own parents. Despite all the hard work, taking care of children and seeing them grow up to develop to be fine young people

The Late Martha Macdonald  Mr. Speaker, last week a very active and giving member of my riding of Brampton was tragically murdered. Martha MacDonald was a caregiver with Brampton Caledon Community Living, an organization that offers support to mentally and physically disadvantaged people living

Speech From The Throne   Foundation for Innovation, working with some university presidents, in particular Dr. Robert Lacroix, the rector of the Université de Montréal, and Dr. Martha Piper, the president of UBC, have come to the government with an exciting and ambitious proposal. They want to build on existing

The Budget  -on of this distinctive philosophy of the knowledge society being carried through. There is a project in which major intellectual contributions were made by Dr. Martha Piper, the president of the University of British Columbia, a distinguished research scientist in her own right, and Robert Lacroix

Oath Of Allegiance To The Flag Of Canada Act   to identify our top Canadian heroes. Among those selected were our fathers of confederation; our first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald; the architect of Canadian medicare, Mr. Tommy Douglas; World War I flying ace Mr. Billy Bishop; Laura Secord, who was credited with saving

Women Of Distinction  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today to honour the eight recipients of this year's Women of Distinction awards in Guelph—Wellington. Manusha Janakiram, Barb Topolsek, Krista Adlington, Gwen Revington, Martha Jakowlew, Sue Richards, Dr. Ruth Tatham and Kim Iezzi are some

Cetaceans   grave concern is that in 1998 the Department of Fisheries and Oceans commissioned Dr. Jon Lien, a respected marine mammal scientist from Memorial University in Newfoundland, to examine the practice of live capture and captive maintenance of marine mammals in Canada. In that report

Education Merit Awards   Association Teaching Merit Award for their commitment to success and outstanding dedication in teaching. Dr. Alastair Cribb, Dr. Gordon MacDonald and Dr. Henry Srebrnik were each awarded the UPEI Faculty Association Research and Scholarly Achievement Award for their accomplishments

Queen's Jubilee Medal  Mr. Speaker, last week I had the honour to present 19 Queen's Golden Jubilee Medals to some very great people in my riding. Those people included Noreen Rustiad, Lily Chow, Ray Kandola, Donalda Carson, Tom Masich. Debbie Byl, Dick Voneugen, Johnny Flatt, Charles MacDonald, Bob

University of Prince Edward Island   contributions to Canada and the world in their chosen field. The first person was Dr. Arnold Hiltz, a graduate of Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. His expertise is in chemistry and he has been employed by NASA. The second person is quite familiar to the House, Senator Jacques