Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, it is an honour to stand in the House in the debate on the opposition day motion brought forward by the Conservative Party on the trans-Pacific partnership and whether Canada should be engaging in it, whether we need to sign the agreement early, and so on and so fo

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague across the aisle on putting this artificial deadline in place. The legislatures of all 12 countries now have two years in which to consider this. To suddenly say that June 29 is when the government must declare support for this is simply a

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, our job in the NDP is to bring a voice to Parliament which so often goes unheard by government. My job here is to speak on behalf of my constituents and a larger group of people, whether they are environment or labour groups. People have raised legitimate concerns

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I appreciated hearing my Conservative colleague's speech, especially his comments about coming to this place to learn to respectfully hear each other out. I am curious about the member's personal views on when local, provincial, or federal governments legislate in

Fight Against Food Waste Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Berthier—Maskinongé for bringing forward this very important bill. As the member well knows, the NDP has done a lot of work in the area of food security. I think specifically of Malcolm Allen, the former member of Parliament f

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, in his speech, the member for Winnipeg North was wondering why members of the opposition are reporting the bill as being a licence to ship jobs overseas. I am happy to illuminate as to why that would be the case, and I will give him three specific examples. First of

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate my friend's speech. He is doing an incredible job for the NDP as the finance critic. I certainly appreciated listening to his exchange with the member for Louis-Saint-Laurent earlier, where he decisively explained why we are opposed to keeping

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, it is nice to be debating Bill C-2 after what has gone on this week. I do not think debate on Bill C-2 is going to make the highlight reel on CPAC; let us not kid ourselves. I appreciate the comments the member made and I understand the position he is coming from. F

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Madam Speaker, yesterday the Liberal government announced that it would allow the sale of genetically-modified salmon in Canada. To make matters worse, the product will not be labelled. Ninety per cent of Canadians have said that they want genetically-modified products to be cle

Canada Elections Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-279, an act to amend the Canada Elections Act (length of election period). Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce a bill that will amend the Canada Elections Act to limit the length of our elections. As we examine changes to our electoral pro

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, it is a very real honour to rise today to speak to the motion. Just on a personal note, democratic reform has always been a very high topic for me. It was a big one for a lot of my constituents during the election as well. I also want to pay some very good attention

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, my friend may know that I had the honour and privilege of working for Jean Crowder for seven years as a constituency assistant, and she sat in four different Parliaments, so she was quite a veteran of this place. In the previous Parliament, she was the official oppos

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will go back to my comment about not presupposing or prejudging the committee's work. The three Conservative members who will be sitting on the committee should be bringing that case forward while they are at committee. If they feel strongly that a referendum is th

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I want to ask my Liberal colleague across the way a question specifically about veterans. As he may know, Bill C-12 was on the Order Paper. It dealt with increasing compensation to veterans. That is something the NDP supports. The budget implementation bill would sw

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated my hon. colleague's speech. I want to concentrate on part (c) of the motion where it states, “targeting gays and lesbians who have been tortured and murdered; and, as a consequence, that the House strongly condemn these atrocities...”. In light of this