Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I want to assure my colleague that, having spent 20 years on the front lines as a planner at the municipal and provincial levels, I understand very well that it is the people on the ground who understand the requirements of projects and the needs of communities bet

Business of Supply  Thank you for your kind words on my French. I am working hard to improve all the time.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would like to begin this response in the same way that I ended the last one: Better is always possible. The motion was predicated on the earlier March report from the PBO that identified where we could do better. We did do better and closed the gaps identified i

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, we are very proud of this plan. We will welcome as many eyes upon it as possible, in fact the more, the better. We are very proud of this plan, which is changing the lives of Canadians every day. One of the things the member for New Westminster has identified is t

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, it is a great pleasure to speak today about the Government of Canada's investments in Canadian communities and in our country's infrastructure. I have spoken in the House before about my career before politics as a city planner and I have shared the story of how

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, we have committed to historic investments and infrastructure across the country. This includes building affordable housing, community centres, libraries, bridges, retrofitting municipal buildings and so much more, including a commitment to high-speed Internet across

The Environment  Madam Speaker, I thank the member and her party for this road to Damascus moment. It is really a wonderful thing to see the Conservative Party finally acknowledging that climate change is real and even putting some ink on paper to acknowledge that we have to do something about it

The Environment  Madam Speaker, I am very pleased that the hon. member's party got a hurry-up motion together to try to keep up with the governing party on climate change emergency. However, in their haste, the New Democrats unfortunately included some fatal flaws in their motion. Of course, our

The Environment  Madam Speaker, this motion, when passed, will send an important message: not just a message to all our constituents across the country that this crisis is real in Canada, but a message to people around the world that, after 10 years of being absent on the world stage in the battl

The Environment  Madam Speaker, as best we can tell, this tiny blue-green planet, Earth, is home to the only life forms in our far-reaching universe. As far as we know, this is it; life only exists here on this one rock orbiting the sun. What a remarkable privilege that is, and what a remarkable

Chair of the Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Roger Sinclair, from my beautiful riding of Halifax, on his appointment as chair of the Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting, also known as CALU. Roger is a founder and partner at SBW Wealth Management & Employee Benefits and ha

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, I commend my friend for his dedication to this file in the heritage committee. I commend him on his dedication to asking the same question again and again, and I will provide the same answer. He knows the answer. The answer is that for 10 years, the Conservative Part

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, the requested information is available on the Government of Canada’s website at https://open.canada.ca/en/search/grants. Instructions are as follows: open the link, enter “Canada Periodical Fund, Aid to Publishers” in the search field, and select the year.

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, the Commissioner of Official Languages made it clear that our government is fulfilling all of its official language obligations. We have always protected French, and we will continue to do so. Francophones across the country know that we are investing more in our of

Halifax Tragedy  Mr. Speaker, today the city of Halifax is in pain. Residents of Quartz Drive in the neighbourhood of Spryfield were awoken last night by a loud bang, screams and the truly horrifying sight of their neighbour's home engulfed in raging flames. An update from the Halifax police te