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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