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Interparliamentary Delegations Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, five reports. The first is entitled “Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation regarding its participation in the pre-NATO Summit Conference”, held in B
May 27th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Presence in Gallery Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Having held consultations with all parties, I am rising to ask for the adoption of the following motion—
May 16th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Crimea Mr. Speaker, 75 years ago, on May 18, 1944, the Crimean Tatars' sürgünlik was launched by Soviet dictator Stalin. All of Crimea's Tatars were forcibly transported 4,000 kilometres east into the inhospitable Central Asian Steppes. More than half died of suffocation, hunger and dis
May 16th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Criminal Code Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill S-240, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs). In 2007 at an airport in western Ukraine, I came across a gut-churning article on the front page of the local news
April 30th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Petitions Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I am pleased to present nine petitions, with hundreds of signatures, all of which address the horror of the abhorrent and illegal harvesting of organs, as documented by the independent Matas and Kilgour investigation. To put a stop to t
April 29th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Petitions Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I would like to present two petitions, the first signed by 36 constituents in my riding of Etobicoke Centre. The petitions are gravely concerned about the ongoing systematic persecution of the Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic groups by
April 10th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the second petition raises a concern about international trafficking in human organs obtained from victims without their consent. This international trade has been documented in Bloody Harvest, a report issued by human rights lawyer David Matas and former Liberal cab
April 10th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Mr. Speaker, today marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the post-World War II wasteland of Europe, the continent's weak democracies faced an existentialist threat from a military superpower with an expansionist Communist
April 4th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Interparliamentary Delegations Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, three reports. The first is entitled “Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation respecting its participation in the Joint Meeting of the Defence and Securi
March 20th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
National Defence Mr. Speaker, in 2017, we extended our military training mission in Ukraine, Operation Unifier, until 2019. Since then, 200 Canadian Armed Forces members have trained close to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers, and Canada has been advising the country on NATO standard defence reforms. C
March 18th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Housing Mr. Speaker, every community in Canada has to deal with the challenge of helping people living in homelessness. Canada's first-ever national housing strategy included a significant increase in funds for fighting homelessness. Last November, the Minister of Families, Children and
February 8th, 2019House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Women, Peace and Security Ambassador Madam Speaker, it is particularly poignant that this debate takes place on the 29th anniversary of the École Polytechnique horror. I begin this evening by picking up where I left off on September 20 in the first hour of debate on my motion to create the institution of an ambassa
December 6th, 2018House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague across the aisle for the passion and dedication she brings to these issues and to this file. She spoke of the differences in cultural understanding of what a nuclear family is. That is a very important topic for discussion and hop
November 28th, 2018House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the parliamentary secretary for his very informative speech. We know that all refugees have come from horrific circumstances, but Yazidi women and girls have survived the sexual slavery of Daesh, which is a particularly difficult journey that th
November 28th, 2018House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Points of Order Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the issue raised in this House in regard to the annual general meeting of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association held on October 30, 2018. In our Westminster parliamentary system we govern ourselves by custom and convention, and by rules and
November 5th, 2018House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal