Health committee   that the federal government also enter the fray and start to provide funding? I can think of many in my riding who couldn't even afford the test, let alone remediation. Is there something the panel is suggesting as something we ought to be doing nationally?

Health committee  Thank you, sir. Thank you to the witnesses. This is amazing information. If I take this home and talk to the folks in my riding, they'll get more scared than they already are. We've been fighting for the past 10 years to reduce the level of exposure to diesel exhaust, which

Canadian Heritage committee  As Mr. Fantino has already said, this issue is huge in the Italian community, both in my riding of York South—Weston and in Toronto generally, so much so that the Italian consul general called a meeting and brought in 70 representatives of the Italian community to complain about

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the biggest problem in my riding is unemployment, especially youth unemployment. The budget does virtually nothing to provide jobs or provide any avenue for jobs. Two years ago, the finance minister suggested something that we had pushed for and I thought was quite

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  , in my riding of York South—Weston and in many urban centres, this kind of change to the gun legislation will only make things less safe. There is nothing in the bill that in an urban centre will make things more safe. It will make it less safe. We already have enough illegal

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  , and that is exactly what happens. In my riding of York South—Weston, none of what is going on in Bill C-42 would actually make anybody any safer. In fact, the problem in my riding is the preponderance of handguns, particularly among young people. When I go to a grade 10 class and ask the students

Safe and Accountable Rail Act   that protects the citizens of the country. In my riding of York South—Weston, there are three separate rail corridors. Two are on the edges of the riding and one goes right through the centre of the riding. The one that goes through the centre and the one at the bottom edge are both CP main

Poverty  Mr. Speaker, I offer a glimpse into the successes and struggles in my riding of York South—Weston. Hammer Heads is an apprenticeship training program paid for by unions and operated by the Central Ontario Building Trades in my community. Over the past five years, Hammer Heads

Transport committee   and that happened in my riding. It was originally to be a P1, in that it was to be private sector completely owned, operated, and managed. It's the airport rail link that David Collenette announced in 2003 would not cost the taxpayer one nickel. Now, $1.4 billion later, the private sector

Transport committee  And if it were a P3, exactly. Your reference to private being available, private companies being eligible during the stimulus period, I did some research in my own riding and discovered that a meat packing plant got stimulus money. Is that what you're referring to? They got $2

Transport committee  That's a really good question. The remaining $3 million that was spent in the riding was the City of Toronto's water main replacement project, so it was a big project that was divided up; $3 million was available to my riding. Your comment about encouraging projects to come

Transport committee  I'll leave it to them. In 2013, we had some pretty serious flooding in my riding, and in a lot of Toronto, that was clearly the result of very inadequate infrastructure. The drain pipes just aren't big enough to handle the kinds of storms that are now coming with climate change

Criminal Code   weapons of this ilk become something that could cause confusion and could cause something bad to happen. The biggest issue facing the folks in my riding with regard to guns is the proliferation of handguns. The proliferation of handguns has happened because the government has reduced

Citizen Voting Act   that shows his previous address, he has to find someone who lives where he last lived to swear that he or she knows him and that he did live there. That was 15 years ago and he lived in a small apartment building in downtown Toronto. I doubt very much that he knows anybody in that riding

Unemployment Rate  Mr. Speaker, I welcome debate on true job creation in this country because there has been a lot of rhetoric from across the aisle for a long time, but I see every day in my riding of York South—Weston that job creation just is not happening. The city of Toronto's unemployment