Immigration and Refugee Act   entities rather than at achieving real change for Canadians. As Dr. Charron put it, this bill “repeats a pattern whereby Canada tinkers on the margins of legislation without addressing core policy and process issues.” As Senator MacDonald noted in his critique, “[Dr. Charron's

Agriculture committee   to both of you. Mr. MacDonald from Prince Edward Island is subbing in for Mr. Ryan Turnbull. It's great to see you as well. You're no stranger to the agriculture committee. I have just a couple of reminders, colleagues, off the hop. We're looking for recommendations by next Monday

Finance committee   have Dr. Gábor Lukács, who is the president of the organization. We also have, from the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, the president and CEO, Michel Leblanc. From Équiterre, we have Andréanne Brazeau, who is an analyst of climate policy; and from the Macdonald-Laurier

Criminal Code   push aside this particular commission. The makeup of the commission itself is significant because the commission is a non-partisan body. The chair of the commission, Michael MacDonald, is a retired Nova Scotia chief justice. The other commissioners are Leanne J. Fitch, who served

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  , is there really a significant difference between that and what John A. Macdonald was doing with the national policy? It's about removing indigenous people from their lands so that non-indigenous people can exploit them. That's what it's about. We need to move in a different direction

Finance committee   a fellow named Ron Atkey, the member of Parliament for St. Paul's. That riding is currently held by Dr. Carolyn Bennett. Ron Atkey was the new immigration minister—a lawyer. The then foreign affairs secretary of state for external affairs was a woman named Flora Macdonald. In fact

Industry committee   Canada's Interests Abroad of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute. By videoconference, we also welcome Daniel Schwanen, vice-president, research at the C.D. Howe Institute. We also have Dan Ciuriak in person, and Robert Mazzolin by videoconference, both senior fellows at the Centre

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My area of expertise is China's domestic politics and foreign policy. With that in mind, I'd like to pick up on two points raised by Minister Champagne when he appeared before this committee last week. The minister said that, henceforth, state-own

Agriculture committee  I don't want to cut you off, but I have one question for Statistics Canada. Mr. MacDonald, we had testimony earlier in this study from Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, who raised concerns about Statistics Canada's removal of historical food inflation data from the website. You mentioned

Bert Blevis  Mr. Speaker, with the launch of the Alouette I satellite in 1962, the men and women at Communications Research Centre Canada in Ottawa made Canada a leader in the field of space research and communications. Dr. Bert Blevis was among them. He was also a key figure in the Hermes

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I heartily endorse everything that Mr. Mulroney has just said, and I'd like to go on to the serious allegations made in media reports that Chinese diplomats in Canada or other agents of China's Communist Party regime have been complicit in unlawful actions to influenc

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much. Canada's new Indo-Pacific policy defines China as an “increasingly disruptive global power.” Others of our like-minded democratic allies are using more straightforward language in identifying that their national policies should regard China as a strategic c

Environment committee  . At Tuesday's meeting, we were also pleased to hear that Dr. MacDonald didn't have any strong concerns about the renaming of schedule 1. With the chemicals management plan nearing the end of its third phase, this bill will make important changes that will continue to guide decision-making

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. My expertise is resource geopolitics and indigenous engagement in Canadian resource development, and I'll focus my brief remarks on those issues. To briefly set the context, the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine hav

Environment committee  Well, you were giving me the example of a chemical, so I was trying to respond in terms of how it works. I will point you to the language in the bill. It actually does say “subject to any reasonable limits”, which is really how a court would interpret the right anyway, so that i