Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne. It is a great honour and privilege for me to stand here and acknowledge that we are standing on unceded Algonquin territory. I would also like to acknowledge the leader of the Progressive Co

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, some people say we need more boots on the streets in order to deal with violence and gang violence, but I believe that the root causes of violence are poverty, desperation, lack of education, lack of a sense of hope, mental illness and addiction. In my community,

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, I meant the official opposition. I acknowledge that members of the Green Party and the NDP have been very vocal and passionate about the environment as well. I thank them for that. This government has set milestones. Every five years it has a milestone to get to z

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, I come to Ottawa from Nova Scotia, the land of the Mi'kmaq, the People of the Dawn. I am bearing an urgent message from some of my youngest constituents, the students of l'École acadienne de Truro, who write: Today, all around the world, millions of students have

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I beg leave to table a petition that is very important to my riding of Cumberland—Colchester. The petitioners call upon the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to honour their commitment to have an independent study to thoroughly review the potential

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, for over a year, Canada has been negotiating very hard for a modernized free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, now called CUSMA or the new NAFTA. We knew how important it was to get it right and to get a fair deal that was good for Canadian workers

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, I feel it is a lot better than it was, especially when we start at the beginning, when the Americans did not want to allow any subsidies whatsoever. As I stated in my speech, they were dead set to try to get rid of the things we had in Canada which they did not hav

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, I hear the member opposite, but when it comes to the 21st century and tech jobs and also IT, one can do that from anywhere. It is not necessary to be in one country or another. Many countries are working together on these types of jobs, and one can do them from a s

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, again, this is the first time we have ever had women's and gender rights expressed in a free trade deal of this sort. I think that is a huge step forward. Personally, having lived and worked in the United States as an actor, I came home to Canada and Nova Scotia b

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was in my seat when the vote was counted. The clerks said my name, I looked at them, I nodded and I sat back down.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was unaware of that particular rule and I am sorry.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would like to start by recognizing that we stand on the ancestral land of the Algonquin people. There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long b

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I do believe members have the right to get to work unobstructed, and it did bother me when that happened in British Columbia. It also bothered me when our Deputy Prime Minister was prevented from going into a legal office in Halifax recently. These things should no

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I have to say, first of all, that I am not the keeper of the Prime Minister's schedule. That is not in my job description, so I do not know what his plans are in the coming days or weeks. However, I do know that the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations is meant t

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would say to my hon. colleague from the NDP that any kind of quoting of songs and poetry is great, because in Nova Scotia we were not allowed to do so in the legislature. It is very freeing.