Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, the amounts transferred during the crisis to Quebec, the provinces and the territories obviously could have been increased. I thank my colleague for her question. I would like to commend her work as former chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. This

Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, I thank my colleague from Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie for his question. I would like to thank him once again for acknowledging my work, and I want to acknowledge his as well. Toxic masculinity, as I mentioned earlier, is such a huge problem. I have talked to groups l

Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, I thank my colleague from Victoria for her question. Obviously, when we talk about help for health in serious cases, such as those involving brain injuries, for example, we need to increase funding for the entire health care system so that it can deal with the incre

Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, I thank my colleague for her question. My God, that is a huge issue. One thing I can say for sure about toxic masculinity and violence is that men need to be part of the conversation. Education is also part of it. We have to be able to talk to our boys and our men

Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, it is an honour to have a woman presiding this evening. I rise with a lump in my throat to speak to this deeply tragic and heartbreaking issue: rising rates of femicide. I will read part of the motion, which, unfortunately, reflects just how sad this situation is:

Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, I thank the hon. Leader of the Opposition for his speech. Everyone here tonight recognizes that it is important to reduce the degree of politicization in a debate as emotional as the one we are having on violence against women. If there is one issue that should no

Gender-Based Violence  Madam Chair, I thank the hon. minister for her intervention. I am especially touched that we are having this debate this evening because, as we know, it is a problem, particularly in Quebec, but also across Canada. I would like to hear from the minister regarding the action pla

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for his presentation. However, first I will actually commend the work of my colleagues from Rivière-du-Nord and Laurentides—Labelle, who have done an outstanding job on the ethics committee and the WE Charity file. The member for Kingst

Health  Mr. Speaker, today, the Canadian Medical Association released a new study showing that the cost of elder care alone will increase by $490 billion over the next 10 years. Ottawa has responded with a single $4-billion transfer. This study reminds us that, as the Bloc Québécois has

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am shocked to hear my colleague say that we are undermining the work of the committees. I would remind my colleague that with respect to the other part of today's motion regarding the WE Charity, we had a report before us and it was the government that slammed the

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. When listening to the testimony at the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, I felt like I was watching a ping-pong match, with the ball flying back and forth between the ombudsman, the minister and the Prime Minister's Of

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am on target for time. Since Tuesday, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women has resumed its study of the issue of sexual misconduct. The Standing Committee on National Defence is also examining it. Our first witness was the Minister of National Defence, wh

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question. The reason I read out the motion is that witnesses who have not yet appeared are named in it. We had this same debate at the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. There were attempts to not summon certain people who were key witne

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I want to commend my colleague from Rivière-du-Nord for his hard work and his speech on these two two files that we are talking about today, namely WE Charity and the cases of sexual assault within the Canadian Armed Forces. These two files provide clear evidence o

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech, and I would like to share some facts with him. Studies show that minimum sentences have actually contributed to the criminalization of certain people and have created problems within some of the more marginalized communities,